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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] zsmalloc: remove unnecessary alignment
On 04/25/2012 09:53 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> On 04/25/2012 02:23 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
>
>> It isn't necessary to align pool size with PAGE_SIZE.
>> If I missed something, please let me know it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c | 5 ++---
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c b/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
>> index 504b6c2..b99ad9e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
>> @@ -489,14 +489,13 @@ fail:
>>
>> struct zs_pool *zs_create_pool(const char *name, gfp_t flags)
>> {
>> - int i, error, ovhd_size;
>> + int i, error;
>> struct zs_pool *pool;
>>
>> if (!name)
>> return NULL;
>>
>> - ovhd_size = roundup(sizeof(*pool), PAGE_SIZE);
>> - pool = kzalloc(ovhd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + pool = kzalloc(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!pool)
>> return NULL;
>>
>
>
> pool metadata is rounded-up to avoid potential false-sharing problem
> (though we could just roundup to cache_line_size()).


Do you really have any hurt by false-sharing problem?
If so, we can change it with

kzalloc(ALIGN(sizeof(*pool), cache_line_size()), GFP_KERNEL);

But I am not sure we need this.

>
> Thanks,
> Nitin
>
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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