Re: [RFC 0/2] guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc()

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 17:48:10 EST



On 3/20/2019 7:53 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 09:48:47AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Natural alignment to size is rather well defined, no? Would anyone ever
>> assume a larger one, for what reason?
>> It's now where some make assumptions (even unknowingly) for natural
>> There are two 'odd' sizes 96 and 192, which will keep cacheline size
>> alignment, would anyone really expect more than 64 bytes?
>
> Presumably 96 will keep being aligned to 32 bytes, as aligning 96 to 64
> just results in 128-byte allocations.

Well, looks like that's what happens. This is with SLAB, but the alignment
calculations should be common:

slabinfo - version: 2.1
# name <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <limit> <batchcount> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
kmalloc-96 2611 4896 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 153 153 0
kmalloc-128 4798 5536 128 32 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : slabdata 173 173 0