Re: [MODSLAB 3/7] A Kmalloc subsystem

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

Christoph Lameter wrote:

>>If you have non-power-of-two caches, you could store the control data at
>>(addr&(~PAGE_SIZE)) - the lookup would be much faster. I wrote a patch a few
>>weeks ago, it's attached.
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>That would only work for slabs that use order 0 pages.
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Most slabs are order 0. Actually: there are only 6 slabs that are not 
order 0 (excluding the kmalloc caches) on my system.

What about:

if (unlikely(addr & (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))))
    slabp=virt_to_page(addr)->pagefield;
 else
    slabp=addr & (~(PAGE_SIZE-1));

Modify the kmalloc caches slightly and use non-power-of-2 cache sizes. 
Move the kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE) users to gfp.

 From my system:
good order 1 slab caches: (i.e.: forcing them to order 0 wastes some memory)
    biovec-128
    blkdev_queue
    mqueue_inode_cache
    RAWv6
    UDPv6
bogus order 1 caches: (i.e.: they could be order 0 without wasting memory)
    biovec-(256)

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    Manfred