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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] set SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for kmalloc caches
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Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> wrote:
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> 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.