Re: [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout

[David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:13:25 +0100
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
> To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
>
> Andi Kleen a écrit :
> > Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> writes:
> > > 1) Reduces the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits
> > > platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%.
> >
> > It should be probably a kmem_cache_alloc() instead of a kmalloc
> > in the first place anyways. This would reduce fragmentation.
>
> Well in theory yes, if you really expect thousand of tasks running...
> But for most machines, number of concurrent tasks is < 200, and using a 
> special cache for this is not a win.

is it enough of a win on machines with thousands of concurrent tasks that 
it would be a useful config option?

David Lang

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