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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:24:11 +0100
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
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, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:17:20PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 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().
max(num_possible_cpus() > 1 ? cache_line_size() : 0, mandatory_alignment)?
Then suppose we want a CONFIG_TINY option to eliminate it?
max(!CONFIG_TINY && num_possible_cpus() > 1 ? cache_line_size() : 0, mandatory_alignment)
And maybe the VSMP guys will want to blow this out to their internode
alignment?
max(!CONFIG_TINY && num_possible_cpus() > 1 ? (is_vsmp ? internode_alignemnt : cache_line_size()) : 0, mandatory_alignment)
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