dm raid1: switch read_record from kmalloc to slab to save memory
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:55:24 +0000 (19:55 +0100)
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:55:24 +0000 (19:55 +0100)
commit95f8fac8dc6139fedfb87746e0c8fda9b803cb46
tree36c980967ee188865d0a58be2e1281b5bf77cbae
parenta920f6b3accc77d9dddbc98a7426be23ee479625
dm raid1: switch read_record from kmalloc to slab to save memory

With my previous patch to save bi_io_vec, the size of dm_raid1_read_record
is significantly increased (the vector list takes 3072 bytes on 32-bit machines
and 4096 bytes on 64-bit machines).

The structure dm_raid1_read_record used to be allocated with kmalloc,
but kmalloc aligns the size on the next power-of-two so an object
slightly greater than 4096 will allocate 8192 bytes of memory and half of
that memory will be wasted.

This patch turns kmalloc into a slab cache which doesn't have this
padding so it will reduce the memory consumed.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-raid1.c