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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: clameter@sgi.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com,
	dada1@cosmosbay.com
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:10:03 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304.161003.129716254.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080305000637.GA1510@wotan.suse.de>

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:06:37 +0100

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:16:44PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > > > HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object to be aligned at 
> > > > cacheline boundaries for optimization. Why does crossing cacheline 
> > > > boundaries matter in this case?
> > > 
> > > No, HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object not to cross cacheline
> > > boundaries for at least cache_line_size() bytes. You invented new
> > 
> > Interesting new definition....
> 
> Huh?? It is not a new definition, it is exactly what SLAB does. And
> then you go and do something different and claim that you follow
> what slab does.

I completely agree with Nick.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-03  9:34 [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  9:35 ` [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:03     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 20:09       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:12         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 20:17           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:24             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 20:41               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-03 21:23                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 21:31               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-05  0:16                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  4:37                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  5:11                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  5:19                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  5:26                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  5:37                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-11  7:13                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-12  6:21                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03  9:36 ` [rfc][patch 3/3] use SLAB_ALIGN_SMP Nick Piggin
2008-03-03  9:53   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-03 12:41     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 13:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-03 13:46         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 13:53           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-03 14:15             ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-03 19:10               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 19:09             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:10               ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 20:12                 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:18                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 21:14                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03  9:44 ` [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment Pekka Enberg
2008-03-03 12:28   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 19:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:06   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 20:10     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 20:17       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-03 21:16         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 21:30           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-03 21:32             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-03 21:35               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-03-05  0:28                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 20:56                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-06  2:49                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-06 22:53                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  2:04                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  2:20                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  2:25                             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  2:27                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  2:33                                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  2:33                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  5:23                                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05  0:08               ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05  0:06           ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05  0:10             ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-05 21:06               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-06  2:57                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-06 22:56                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  2:23                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  2:26                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  2:32                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  2:54                           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  3:10                             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  3:18                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  3:22                                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-07  3:58                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07  4:05                                     ` Nick Piggin

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