> From: Paul Szczepanek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12.23 > > Add a new utility header for compressing pointers. The provided > functions can store pointers as 32-bit or 16-bit offsets. > > The compression takes advantage of the fact that pointers are > usually located in a limited memory region (like a mempool). > We can compress them by converting them to offsets from a base > memory address. Offsets can be stored in fewer bytes (dictated > by the memory region size and alignment of the pointer). > For example: an 8 byte aligned pointer which is part of a 32GB > memory pool can be stored in 4 bytes. > > Suggested-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Paul Szczepanek <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Kamalakshitha Aligeri <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Nathan Brown <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Jack Bond-Preston <[email protected]> > ---
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <[email protected]>
