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Commit 1037b83b authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Linus Torvalds
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MM: alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two bucketsize


alloc_large_system_hash() is called at boot time to allocate space for
several large hash tables.

Lately, TCP hash table was changed and its bucketsize is not a power-of-two
anymore.

On most setups, alloc_large_system_hash() allocates one big page (order >
0) with __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order).  This single high_order page
has a power-of-two size, bigger than the needed size.

We can free all pages that wont be used by the hash table.

On a 1GB i386 machine, this patch saves 128 KB of LOWMEM memory.

TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 393216 bytes)

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b92151ba
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