user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kmalloc_sizes.h, branch v3.9

Slab allocators: define common size limitations

2007-05-17T12:23:04Z

Currently we have a maze of configuration variables that determine the maximum slab size. Worst of all it seems to vary between SLAB and SLUB. So define a common maximum size for kmalloc. For conveniences sake we use the maximum size ever supported which is 32 MB. We limit the maximum size to a lower limit if MAX_ORDER does not allow such large allocations. For many architectures this patch will have the effect of adding large kmalloc sizes. x86_64 adds 5 new kmalloc sizes. So a small amount of memory will be needed for these caches (contemporary SLAB has dynamically sizeable node and cpu structure so the waste is less than in the past) Most architectures will then be able to allocate object with sizes up to MAX_ORDER. We have had repeated breakage (in fact whenever we doubled the number of supported processors) on IA64 because one or the other struct grew beyond what the slab allocators supported. This will avoid future issues and f.e. avoid fixes for 2k and 4k cpu support. CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS is no longer necessary so drop it. It fixes sparc64 with SLAB. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Increase max kmalloc size for very large systems

2006-03-07T02:40:44Z

Systems with extemely large numbers of nodes or cpus need to kmalloc structures larger than is currently supported. This patch increases the maximum supported size for very large systems. This patch should have no effect on current systems. (akpm: why not just use alloc_pages() for sysfs_cpus?) Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: cache sizes cleanup

2003-03-28T11:21:00Z

From: Brian Gerst - Reduce code duplication by putting the kmalloc cache sizes into a header file. - Tidy up kmem_cache_sizes_init().