Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Introduce SLAB_SMP_ALIGN, for allocations where false sharing must be
> minimised on SMP systems.

Mandatory alignment are specified as a parameter to kmem_cache_create not 
as flags. Ycan specify the alignment as a parameter. i.e. L1_CACHE_BYTES 
or cache_line_size().

Maybe we should drop SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN because of the confusion is 
creates because it seems that flags can be used to enforce alignments?


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