Re: [RFC, PATCH] set SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for kmalloc caches

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 18:24:57 EST


Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think the kmalloc caches should remain cache line aligned

I'm not so sure. size-64 is used a lot for out-of-line dentry names.
Taking these up to 128 bytes or even more will consume considerable
memory in some situations.
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