From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud-RlY5vtjFyJ3QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Sagi Grimberg
<sagig-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagig-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: Matan Barak <matanb-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Reduce mlx5_ib_wq cacheline bouncing
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:26:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452677194.9500.27.camel@opteya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56960E5C.5000607-LDSdmyG8hGV8YrgS2mwiifqBs+8SCbDb@public.gmane.org>
Le mercredi 13 janvier 2016 à 10:44 +0200, Sagi Grimberg a écrit :
> > Anyway, I'm not sure about the alignment of the memory returned by
> > kcalloc(), I should have known by the time but don't find time to
> > figure how it's handled on various SL*B allocator implementation.
>
> Can you explain why should I worry about the alignment of kcalloc
> here?
Say it returns memory aligned on 16 bytes, then accessing some items in
the array is going to touch 2 cachelines, defeating the purpose of the
padding or the alignment attribute added to the item structure.
Regards.
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Yann Droneaud
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2016-01-12 10:32 [PATCH] IB/mlx5: Reduce mlx5_ib_wq cacheline bouncing Sagi Grimberg
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2016-01-12 12:16 ` Or Gerlitz
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2016-01-12 14:44 ` Sagi Grimberg
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2016-01-12 14:53 ` Or Gerlitz
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2016-01-12 14:58 ` Sagi Grimberg
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2016-01-12 15:05 ` Or Gerlitz
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2016-01-12 15:09 ` Sagi Grimberg
2016-01-13 8:55 ` Or Gerlitz
2016-01-12 14:37 ` Yann Droneaud
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2016-01-13 8:44 ` Sagi Grimberg
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2016-01-13 9:26 ` Yann Droneaud [this message]
[not found] ` <1452677194.9500.27.camel-RlY5vtjFyJ3QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-13 9:37 ` Sagi Grimberg
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