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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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  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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