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

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 13:52:29 EST


On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> That however doesn't work well for the xfs/IO case where block sizes are
> not known in advance:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190225040904.5557-1-ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#ec3a292c358d05a6b29cc4a9ce3ae6b2faf31a23f

I thought we agreed to use custom slab caches for that?