Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 2015 09:47:48 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] sched/fair: Use different cachelines for readers and writers of load_avg |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:00:35PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> I think the current kernel use power-of-2 kmemcaches to satisfy kalloc() > requests except when the size is less than or equal to 192 where there are > some non-power-of-2 kmemcaches available. Given that the task_group > structure is large enough with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, we shouldn't hit > the case that the allocated buffer is not cacheline aligned.
Using out-of-object storage is allowed (none of the existing sl*b allocators do so iirc).
That is, its perfectly valid for a sl*b allocator for 64 byte objects to allocate 72 bytes for each object and use the 'spare' 8 bytes for object tracking or whatnot.
That would respect the minimum alignment guarantee of 8 bytes but not provide the 'expected' object size alignment you're assuming.
Also, we have the proper interfaces to request the explicit alignment for a reason. So if you need the alignment for correctness, use those.
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