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Matt Mackall 10cef60295 [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 
configurable replacement for slab allocator

This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.  When CONFIG_SLAB is
disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator.

SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer,
similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced.  It's
signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient.  But like all
similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more
than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems.

It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree.  I've also
stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not
recommended).

Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving
nearly half a megabyte of RAM:

$ size vmlinux*
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
3336372  529360  190812 4056544  3de5e0 vmlinux-slab
3323208  527948  190684 4041840  3dac70 vmlinux-slob

$ size mm/{slab,slob}.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  13221     752      48   14021    36c5 mm/slab.o
   1896      52       8    1956     7a4 mm/slob.o

/proc/meminfo:
                  SLAB          SLOB      delta
MemTotal:        27964 kB      27980 kB     +16 kB
MemFree:         24596 kB      25092 kB    +496 kB
Buffers:            36 kB         36 kB       0 kB
Cached:           1188 kB       1188 kB       0 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Active:            608 kB        600 kB      -8 kB
Inactive:          808 kB        812 kB      +4 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
LowTotal:        27964 kB      27980 kB     +16 kB
LowFree:         24596 kB      25092 kB    +496 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Dirty:               4 kB         12 kB      +8 kB
Writeback:           0 kB          0 kB       0 kB
Mapped:            560 kB        556 kB      -4 kB
Slab:             1756 kB          0 kB   -1756 kB
CommitLimit:     13980 kB      13988 kB      +8 kB
Committed_AS:     4208 kB       4208 kB       0 kB
PageTables:         28 kB         28 kB       0 kB
VmallocTotal:  1007312 kB    1007312 kB       0 kB
VmallocUsed:        48 kB         48 kB       0 kB
VmallocChunk:  1007264 kB    1007264 kB       0 kB

(this work has been sponsored in part by CELF)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
..
acpi [ACPI] increase owner_id limit to 64 from 32 2005-12-21 04:52:16 -05:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-arm [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] frv: miscellaneous changes 2006-01-08 20:13:38 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-mips [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] ppc32: Allows compilation of a MPC52xx kernel without PCI 2006-01-06 08:33:31 -08:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-sh [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] consolidate asm/futex.h 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX 2006-01-08 20:13:39 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
keys [PATCH] Keys: Remove key duplication 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
linux [PATCH] slob: introduce the SLOB allocator 2006-01-08 20:13:41 -08:00
math-emu
media Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6 2006-01-06 15:25:08 -08:00
mtd
net [IPV4]: make ip_fragment() static 2006-01-07 13:23:39 -08:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: unify attach, EVENT_CARD_INSERTION handlers into one probe callback 2006-01-06 00:03:24 +01:00
rdma
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'post-2.6.15' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block 2006-01-06 09:01:25 -08:00
sound [ALSA] Revert the nested-device patch 2006-01-04 10:13:48 +01:00
video