lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Nov]   [30]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: Use different cachelines for readers and writers of load_avg
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 02:13:32PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> >This would only work if the structure itself is allocated with cacheline
> >alignment, and looking at sched_create_group(), we use a plain kzalloc()
> >for this, which doesn't guarantee any sort of alignment beyond machine
> >word size IIRC.
>
> With a RHEL 6 derived .config file, the size of the task_group structure was
> 460 bytes on a 32-bit x86 kernel. Adding a ____cacheline_aligned tag
> increase the size to 512 bytes. So it did make the structure a multiple of
> the cacheline size. With both slub and slab, the allocated task group
> pointers from kzalloc() in sched_create_group() were all multiples of 0x200.
> So they were properly aligned for the ____cacheline_aligned tag to work.

Not sure we should rely on sl*b doing the right thing here.
KMALLOC_MIN_ALIGN is explicitly set to sizeof(long long). If you want
explicit alignment, one should use KMEM_CACHE().


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-12-01 00:01    [W:2.047 / U:0.056 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site