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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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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-26 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607220748160.13737@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
     [not found]   ` <20060722162607.GA10550@osiris.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607221241130.14513@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
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     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607230558560.15651@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
     [not found]           ` <20060723162427.GA10553@osiris.ibm.com>
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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