On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:30:10 +0800 Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Add Vlastimil for slab related topic. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:37:14AM +0800, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 11:34:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll just drop the patch. It didn't receive a very favorable > > > review reception anyway. > > > > See here: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/DM4PR12MB5086B9BDBF32D53DF226CBF489362@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > folks still need to learn email. :-) > > > > Anyway, apparently there's some fix there. > > The original commit 328c801335d5 ("cpumask: create dedicated kmem > cache for cpumask var") has some benefit, that there are CPU numbers > which are not power of 8, like 144, 288 etc where it will save > some memory. > > And 'slabtop' on a qemu-VM with 16 cpus shows it is surprisingly > non-trivial and has the third largest number of objects: > > 22350 22350 100% 0.13K 745 30 2980K kernfs_node_cache > 11172 10693 0% 0.19K 266 42 2128K dentry > 10240 8222 0% 0.01K 20 512 80K cpumask > > Andrew, if it is worth merging, you can folder my fix into the patch. I'll await a resend, please.