27 Mar
2015
27 Mar
'15
7:45 p.m.
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 06:11:44AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Create a new slab cache for this purpose that does the proper aligning?
That is certainly a possibility, but we'll only ever allocate nr_cpus-1 entries from it, a whole new slab cache might be overkill.
This will certainly be aliased to some other slab cache so not much overhead is created.