From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 4.12-rc ppc64 4k-page needs costly allocations
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 11:37:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1706011128490.3622@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1706011306560.11993@east.gentwo.org>
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> Ok so debugging was off but the slab cache has a ctor callback which
> mandates that the free pointer cannot use the free object space when
> the object is not in use. Thus the size of the object must be increased to
> accomodate the freepointer.
Thanks a lot for working that out. Makes sense, fully understood now,
nothing to worry about (though makes one wonder whether it's efficient
to use ctors on high-alignment caches; or whether an internal "zero-me"
ctor would be useful).
Hugh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-30 19:43 Hugh Dickins
2017-05-31 6:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-31 14:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-05-31 18:44 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-05-31 19:02 ` Mathieu Malaterre
2017-06-01 15:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-06-01 17:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-06-01 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-06-01 18:37 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2017-06-02 3:09 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-02 4:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2017-06-02 14:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-06-08 5:44 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-02 14:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-06-08 5:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-31 14:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-06-01 4:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-01 16:57 ` Hugh Dickins
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