linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:17:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > You want two ways of specifying alignments?
> 
> I want a way to ask for SMP friendly allocation.

Then align the objects at cacheline boundaries by providing a value for 
the align parameter to kmem_cache_create().
 
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