linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] workqueue: use kmalloc

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:15:05 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] workqueue: use kmalloc_align() instead of
 hacking

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Lai Jiangshan wrote:

> kmalloc_align() makes the code simpler.

Another approach would be to simply create a new slab cache using
kmem_cache_create() with the desired alignment and allocate from
that.

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