[linux-mm-cc] First experience of compressed cache

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I already submitted compcache as kernel patch to LKML.
>  But I need to get more numbers on allocator performance. See:
>
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/24/181
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/24/86
>
>  My current schedule is just too hectic to get these numbers anytime soon.

So you would like someone to patch tlsf so /proc/tlsf reports
a) memory used
b) amount of memory kmalloc would have needed.

And then report this information on a couple of loads?

So kmalloc does everything in powers of 2:
  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-slab-allocator/
is it really that inefficient?

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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia