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From: Hannes Eder <heder@google.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-users@linuxvirtualserver.org,
	malcolm@loadbalancer.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:34:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5ddba180907270334m4bc4e968m85c16ea4756c3f5d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6D7285.9080909@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:25, Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, ip_vs_conn_cache uses SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, so this should be rounded up
> to L1 cache size. Or add "at least" like in line 1080
> of net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_conn.c :
>
> IP_VS_DBG(0, "Each connection entry needs %Zd bytes at least\n",
>           sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn));

Good point.  Is there an easy way to figure out how much memory is
wasted for alignment by the slab allocator?  Otherwise I vote for the
"at least" approach.

-Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-27 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-27  9:08 [PATCH] IPVS: logging sizeof(struct ip_vs_conn) on startup Hannes Eder
2009-07-27  9:22 ` Simon Horman
2009-07-27  9:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-27 10:34   ` Hannes Eder [this message]
2009-07-27 13:13     ` [PATCH v2] " Hannes Eder
2009-07-27 18:48       ` David Miller
2009-07-28  0:19         ` Simon Horman
2009-07-28  5:38           ` Eric Dumazet

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