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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 06:12:36 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab.c cleanup
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> - Don't create caches that are not multiples of L1_CACHE_BYTES.

Nice idea, I often see the list walk (of the cache sizes) in kmalloc in kernel
profiles. eg a bunch of kmalloc(2k) for network drivers.

Since we have a 128byte cacheline on ppc64 this patch should reduce that.

Anton
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