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    slab: restrict the number of objects in a slab · f315e3fa
    Joonsoo Kim authored
    
    
    To prepare to implement byte sized index for managing the freelist
    of a slab, we should restrict the number of objects in a slab to be less
    or equal to 256, since byte only represent 256 different values.
    Setting the size of object to value equal or more than newly introduced
    SLAB_OBJ_MIN_SIZE ensures that the number of objects in a slab is less or
    equal to 256 for a slab with 1 page.
    
    If page size is rather larger than 4096, above assumption would be wrong.
    In this case, we would fall back on 2 bytes sized index.
    
    If minimum size of kmalloc is less than 16, we use it as minimum object
    size and give up this optimization.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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