On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > Now, the size of the freelist for the slab management diminish, > so that the on-slab management structure can waste large space > if the object of the slab is large. > > Consider a 128 byte sized slab. If on-slab is used, 31 objects can be > in the slab. The size of the freelist for this case would be 31 bytes > so that 97 bytes, that is, more than 75% of object size, are wasted. > > In a 64 byte sized slab case, no space is wasted if we use on-slab. > So set off-slab determining constraint to 128 bytes. > > Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>