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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How reliable is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:41:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063208464.700.35.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030910081654.GA1129@llm08.in.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 04:16, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> Am I missing something or can there really be two objects on the same 
> cacheline even when SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is specified?

No, you are right.

If your object _must_ be cache aligned, use SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN.

But note that this will result in cache aligning objects even if it ends
of wasting a _lot_ of space, such as when debugging is turned on.

I think we only use it for the task_struct_cachep.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-10  8:16 How reliable is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN? Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-10 15:41 ` Robert Love [this message]
2003-09-11  5:54   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-11 11:08     ` [patch] Make slab allocator work with SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-11 16:19       ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-11 21:49         ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-12  8:59         ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-12  9:10           ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-13 20:06           ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-13 20:58             ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-09-14  8:09             ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-14 13:00               ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-09-15  5:13                 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai

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