On Thursday 24 July 2008 23:04, Herbert Xu wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:56:08PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > OTOH, skb allocation uses kmalloc don't they? So you could still use
> > SLOB ksize for that I guess.
>
> Yes I was referring to the data portion which is kmalloc'ed.
> That is also why I'm interested in ksize because a priori we
> don't know exactly how big it's going to be.  However, we do
> know that statistically 1500 will dominate.
>
> I'm not interested in ksize for kmem_cache at all.  So in fact
> we could have something simpler that's based on kmalloc's rounding
> algorithm instead.

Yes you could definitely have a function that returns allocated
bytes for a given kmalloc size. Should be about as fast or faster
than extracting the size from the kaddr...

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