Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:45:36 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] vmstat: Avoid waking up idle-cpu to service shepherd work |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 06:11:44AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > Create a new slab cache for this purpose that does the proper aligning? > > That is certainly a possibility, but we'll only ever allocate nr_cpus-1 > entries from it, a whole new slab cache might be overkill.
This will certainly be aliased to some other slab cache so not much overhead is created.
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