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
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-26 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-22 11:06 [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments Heiko Carstens
2006-07-22 12:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-07-22 14:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-22 16:26 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-22 19:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-23 7:35 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-23 13:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-23 16:24 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 8:49 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 9:55 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 8:50 ` [patch 1/2] slab: always consider caller mandated alignment Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 8:50 ` Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 8:51 ` [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch " Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 8:51 ` Heiko Carstens, Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:05 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:05 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:13 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:13 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:37 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:37 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 10:52 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 10:52 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 11:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:26 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 11:26 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-07-26 18:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 18:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:28 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2006-07-26 19:28 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 19:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 19:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 19:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-27 5:33 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 5:33 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 5:47 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 5:47 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 4:24 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-27 4:24 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:22 ` [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments Pekka Enberg
2006-07-26 11:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 11:32 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 11:48 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:49 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 11:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 12:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-07-26 12:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 12:31 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 15:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 15:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-07-26 16:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 18:24 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-26 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-07-26 12:35 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-07-26 12:36 ` Pekka J Enberg
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