On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 10:34 AM Catalin Marinas > <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > That's the fourth version of the series reducing the kmalloc() minimum > > alignment on arm64 to 8 (from 128). > > Lovely. On my M2 Macbook air, I right now have about 24MB in the > kmalloc-128 bucket, and most of it is presumably just 16 byte > allocations (judging by my x86-64 slabinfo). > > I guess it doesn't really matter when I have 16GB in the machine, but > this has annoyed me for a while. > > It feels like this is ready for 6.5, no? >From an implementation approach perspective, I definitely target 6.5. But I need help with testing this, especially the iommu bits (can buy Robin some beers ;)). -- Catalin
