Re: [PATCH] slab: fix slab flags for archs use alignment larger

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Giuseppe,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO
<peppe.cavallaro@st.com> wrote:
> 1) LOG with my patch:
> root@linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab
> Slab:             2612 kB
>
> 2) LOG without my patch:
> root@linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab
> Slab:             2504 kB

That's not too bad. I assume it's L1_CACHE_BYTES set to 32 bytes? One
big problem with your patch is that on some MIPS configurations
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is as big as 128. So if you're going to do this,
you can't use ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN directly but add a some
SLAB_MAX_DEBUG_ALIGN which can be overridden by architecture code.

One obvious question, though, is whether all this is worth the added
complexity. I mean, we've managed "just fine" without it for years.
Paul, thoughts?

                                        Pekka