From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] Make slab allocator work with SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:30:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030914130037.GA1781@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030914080942.GA9302@in.ibm.com>
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:39:42PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> The patch I posted earlier takes care of 1 & 2, but arbitraty alignment takes
> care of all 4, and as you mentioned the patch is small enough. If interface
While we are at it, we should also probably look up the cache line
size for a cpu family from a table, store it in some per-cpu data
(cpuinfo_x86 ?) and provide an l1_cache_bytes() api to
return it at run time.
Thanks
Dipankar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-14 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-10 8:16 How reliable is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN? Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-10 15:41 ` Robert Love
2003-09-11 5:54 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-11 11:08 ` [patch] Make slab allocator work with SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-11 16:19 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-11 21:49 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-12 8:59 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-12 9:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-13 20:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-09-13 20:58 ` Dipankar Sarma
2003-09-14 8:09 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2003-09-14 13:00 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2003-09-15 5:13 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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2003-09-13 22:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
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