On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 04/13/2018 05:10 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13 2018 at 5:22am -0400, > > Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Would this perhaps be a good LSF/MM discussion topic? Mikulas, are you > >> attending, or anyone else that can vouch for your usecase? > > > > Any further discussion on SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE should continue on list. > > > > Mikulas won't be at LSF/MM. But I included Mikulas' dm-bufio changes > > that no longer depend on this proposed SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE (as part of > > the 4.17 merge window). > > Can you or Mikulas briefly summarize how the dependency is avoided, and This was Mike's misconception - dm-bufio actually needs the SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE patch, otherwise it is wasting memory. > whether if (something like) SLAB_MINIMIZE_WASTE were implemented, the > dm-bufio code would happily switch to it, or not? > > Thanks, > Vlastimil Mikulas -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
