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Re: kmem pool for half pagesize is very wasteful



mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) writes:

>while we were debugging some memory starvation issues i noticed that
>the "kmem-02048" pool only has 1 item per page on a system with 4KiB
>pages, same similarly "kmem-04096" on 8KiB page systems.  i assume
>this also occurs on 16KiB page systems for the "kmem-08192" pool.

It also occurs for the buf32k pool. One item (32k) per 64k pool page.

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