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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:02:07 +0200
From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alloc_tty_struct() question.
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011231852590.2128-100000@penguin.homenet>; from tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk on Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:54:48PM +0000
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:54:48PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The sizeof(struct tty_struct) = 3084. Why don't we have a private slab
> cache for it instead of getting a page and wasting some precious bytes at
> the end? Potentially, we can have thousands of tty_struct allocated
> (assuming we have thousands of concurrent users)...

	Potentially thousands, in practice some 10-30.
	Wastage will be worse with 8k pages, of course.

> regards,
> Tigran
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