linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803061451230.16212@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:53:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, 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 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > That was due to SLUB's support for smaller allocation sizes. AFAICT has 
> > nothing to do with alignment.
> 
> The smaller sizes meant objects were less often aligned on cacheline
> boundaries.

Right since SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN does not align for very small objects.

> We could, but I'd rather just use the flag.

Do you have a case in mind where that would be useful? We had a 
SLAB_HWCACHE_MUST_ALIGN or so at some point but it was rarely to never 
used. Note that there is also KMEM_CACHE which picks up the alignment from 
the compiler.


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