From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750787AbWFUQMf (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:12:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750806AbWFUQMe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:12:34 -0400 Received: from gw.openss7.com ([142.179.199.224]:47025 "EHLO gw.openss7.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750796AbWFUQMb (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:12:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:12:30 -0600 From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/8] Inode diet v2 Message-ID: <20060621101230.A20623@openss7.org> Reply-To: bidulock@openss7.org Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060621125146.508341000@candygram.thunk.org> <20060621084217.B7834@openss7.org> <1150906010.3057.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1150906010.3057.45.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>; from arjan@infradead.org on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 06:06:50PM +0200 Organization: http://www.openss7.org/ Dsn-Notification-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan, On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > for the inode slab it would very much make sense to tell the slab > allocator to not do any kind of cacheline alignment at all, just because > of the wasted space... As the objects are an order of magnitude larger than the L1 cache slot, it is fitting an integer multiple into a slab that is the limiting factor, not really cacheline alignment.