Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:41:49PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> +/*
> + * Make sure that the task_group structure is cacheline aligned when
> + * fair group scheduling is enabled.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
> +static inline struct task_group *alloc_task_group(void)
> +{
> +	return kmem_cache_alloc(task_group_cache, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void free_task_group(struct task_group *tg)
> +{
> +	kmem_cache_free(task_group_cache, tg);
> +}
> +#else /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */
> +static inline struct task_group *alloc_task_group(void)
> +{
> +	return kzalloc(sizeof(struct task_group), GFP_KERNEL);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void free_task_group(struct task_group *tg)
> +{
> +	kfree(tg);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED */

I think we can simply always use the kmem_cache, both slab and slub
merge slabcaches where appropriate.
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