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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab.c cleanup
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:11:04 +0100
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Brian Gerst wrote:

> - Don't create caches that are not multiples of L1_CACHE_BYTES.

This sounds a bit drastic to me considering that the vast majority
of kmalloc allocations that I see are either in the <32 byte or
in the 64..128 byte range. Enlarging the minimum size to 256
byte would immediately waste over 1MB on my machine...

        Arnd <><