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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dcn@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] set SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for kmalloc caches
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 16:25:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040528162545.13fa2be8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B7A562.8040104@colorfullife.com>

Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
>
> I think the kmalloc caches should remain cache line aligned

I'm not so sure.  size-64 is used a lot for out-of-line dentry names.
Taking these up to 128 bytes or even more will consume considerable
memory in some situations.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-28 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28 20:47 [RFC, PATCH] set SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for kmalloc caches Manfred Spraul
2004-05-28 23:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-05-29  6:57   ` Manfred Spraul

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