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Mathias Krause 565f0fa902 xfrm: use a dedicated slab cache for struct xfrm_state
struct xfrm_state is rather large (768 bytes here) and therefore wastes
quite a lot of memory as it falls into the kmalloc-1024 slab cache,
leaving 256 bytes of unused memory per XFRM state object -- a net waste
of 25%.

Using a dedicated slab cache for struct xfrm_state reduces the level of
internal fragmentation to a minimum.

On my configuration SLUB chooses to create a slab cache covering 4
pages holding 21 objects, resulting in an average memory waste of ~13
bytes per object -- a net waste of only 1.6%.

In my tests this led to memory savings of roughly 2.3MB for 10k XFRM
states.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
2018-05-04 10:14:00 +02:00
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certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto MIPS changes for 4.17 2018-04-10 11:39:22 -07:00
drivers r8169: replace magic numbers with PCI MRRS constant 2018-04-16 18:55:04 -04:00
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include net: Remove unused tcp_set_state tracepoint 2018-04-16 19:02:15 -04:00
init seq_file: allocate seq_file from kmem_cache 2018-04-11 10:28:36 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: shm_split(): remove unneeded test for NULL shm_file_data.vm_ops 2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
kernel * Fix 2032 time access issues and new compiler warnings 2018-04-12 10:21:19 -07:00
lib Fix for one swiotlb regression in 2.16 from Takashi. 2018-04-12 11:00:48 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.