From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: axboe@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slabify iocontext + request_queue
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 19:07:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040515190735.A4189@infradead.org> (raw)
this just went in:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
>
> Move both request_queue and io_context allocation to a slab cache.
>
> This is mainly a space-saving exercise. Some setups have a lot of disks
> and the kmalloc rounding-up can consume significant amounts of memory.
While I agree on the io_context part, slabifying request_queue is a space
waste on most machines out there. The averange desktop has less than a
handfull of these, and even for smaller servers it doesn't exactly look
like a gain.
next reply other threads:[~2004-05-15 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-15 18:07 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-05-15 17:30 ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-15 19:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
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