On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > 32 byte is not minimum object size, minimum *kmalloc* object size > in default configuration. There are some slabs that their object size is > less than 32 byte. If we have a 8 byte sized kmem_cache, it has 512 objects > in 4K page. As far as I can recall only SLUB supports 8 byte objects. SLABs mininum has always been 32 bytes. > Moreover, we can configure slab_max_order in boot time so that we can't know > how many object are in a certain slab in compile time. Therefore we can't > decide the size of the index in compile time. You can ignore the slab_max_order if necessary. > I think that byte and short int sized index support would be enough, but > it should be determined at runtime. On x86 f.e. it would add useless branching. The branches are never taken. You only need these if you do bad things to the system like requiring large contiguous allocs. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>