From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:28:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C7C261.6050602@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607261153220.6896@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
>So Redzoning etc will now be diabled regardless even if
>ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is not set but another alignment is given to
>kmem_cache_alloc?
>
>
kmem_cache_create().
>So we sacrifice the ability to worsen the performance of slabs by
>misaligning them for debugging purposes.
>
>
If a slab user can live with misaligned objects, then he shouldn't set
align. Thus we do not sacrifice anything.
--
Manfred
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2006-07-26 8:50 ` [patch 1/2] slab: always consider caller " Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 8:51 ` [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch " Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:05 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:13 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:37 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:52 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 11:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:26 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 18:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:28 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2006-07-26 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 19:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-27 5:33 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 5:47 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 4:24 ` Pekka J Enberg
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