Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:47:16 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment |
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > Yes and that's what we have been saying all along. When you want > performance, you use SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN and let the allocator do its job. > I don't see much point from API point of view for the caller to explicitly > ask for a given alignment and then in addition pass a 'yes I really meant' > flag (SLAB_DEBUG_OVERRIDE).
Btw, /proc/slabinfo for UML with defconfig reveals change for only one cache with my patch applied. The 'dquot' cache is created by dquot_init in fs/dquot.c and doesn't really seem to need the alignment for anything...
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