Re: [PATCH v3 31/35] lib: add memory allocations report in show_mem()

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Feb 15 2024 - 18:24:42 EST


On 2/15/24 15:07, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Just adding the patches increases the size by 5k. But the rest shows an
> increase of 259k, and you are worried about 4k (and possibly less?)???

Doesn't the new page_ext thingy add a pointer per 'struct page', or
~0.2% of RAM, or ~32MB on a 16GB laptop? I, too, am confused why 4k is
even remotely an issue.