On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 11:29 +0900, JoonSoo Kim wrote:
> 2012/10/22 Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> >> kmalloc() and kmalloc_node() of the SLUB isn't inlined when @flags = __GFP_DMA.
> >> This patch optimize this case,
> >> so when @flags = __GFP_DMA, it will be inlined into generic code.
> >
> > __GFP_DMA is a rarely used flag for kmalloc allocators and so far it was
> > not considered that it is worth to directly support it in the inlining
> > code.
> >
> >
>
> Hmm... but, the SLAB already did that optimization for __GFP_DMA.
> Almost every kmalloc() is invoked with constant flags value,
> so I think that overhead from this patch may be negligible.
> With this patch, code size of vmlinux is reduced slightly.
Only because you asked a allyesconfig
GFP_DMA is used for less than 0.1 % of kmalloc() calls, for legacy
hardware (from last century)
In fact if you want to reduce even more your vmlinux, you could test
if (__builtin_constant_p(flags) && (flags & SLUB_DMA))
return kmem_cache_alloc_trace(s, flags, size);
to force the call to out of line code.
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