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[PATCH] slabify iocontext + request_queue
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Sat, 15 May 2004 03:19:00 +0000 (20:19 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 15 May 2004 03:19:00 +0000 (20:19 -0700)
commit017474ed123ac14187eef6a0d5b76becbce763e0
treee624536698d12bf5f256370833a4ad4f53813211tree | snapshot
parent6570695993f02465f4f84c7fc252fc43f7180974commit | diff
[PATCH] slabify iocontext + request_queue

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Move both request_queue and io_context allocation to a slab cache.

This is mainly a space-saving exercise.  Some setups have a lot of disks
and the kmalloc rounding-up can consume significant amounts of memory.
drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c diff | blob | history
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