Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: Move ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGNto <linux/slab_def.h>

From: Manfred Spraul
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 12:48:16 EST


On 05/19/2010 08:10 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
* Unless debug options are enabled, the kernel uses cache_line_size()
automatically.
... that's a lie.

You are right, I didn't notice that there are now 8 and 16-byte kmalloc caches.

Apart from that:

KMALLOC_FLAGS is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN.
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN defaults the alignment to cache_line_size().


Did I overlook anything else?

--
Manfred
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