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DateThu, 27 Jul 2006 08:47:16 +0300 (EEST)
FromPekka J Enberg <>
SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment
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...

				Pekka
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