On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 at 07:45, Isaac Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 8:48 AM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's version 6 of the series reducing the kmalloc() minimum alignment > > on arm64 to 8 (from 128). There are patches already to do the same for > > riscv (pretty straight-forward after this series). > Thanks, Catalin for getting these patches out. Please add my "Tested-by:" tag > for the series: > > Tested-by: Isaac J. Manjarres <isaacmanjarres@xxxxxxxxxx> > > With the first 11 patches, I observed a reduction of 18.4 MB > in the slab memory footprint on my Pixel 6 device. After applying the > rest of the patches in the series, I observed a total reduction of > 26.5 MB in the > slab memory footprint on my device. These are great results! > It would also be good to get an insight into how much bouncing is going on in this case, given that (AFAIK) Pixel 6 uses non-cache coherent DMA.
