Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what
> has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this.

Why? SLAB does not cacheline align objects smaller than cache_line_size() 
/2. If they are already not cache line aligned then we can make them as 
dense as possible. That is what SLUB does.

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