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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:13:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311071330.GA20271@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803062120410.1215@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:26:24PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Internode alignment is 4k. If you need an object aligned like that then it 
> may be better to go to the page allocator.

I never got a reply about this. Again: how can the modern slab allocator
avoid the need for internode alignment in order to prevent cacheline
pingpong on vsmp? Because I'm going to resubmit the SMP_ALIGN patch.

Also, the last I heard about the HWCACHE_ALIGN from you is that it didn't
make sense... I see it's merged now, which I appreciate, but I think it is
really important that we're on the same page here, so let me know if it
still doesn't make sense.

Thanks,
Nick


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-11  7:13 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 [this message]
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
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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