From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758866AbZBMJau (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:30:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbZBMJai (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:30:38 -0500 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.188]:24655 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231AbZBMJag convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:30:36 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=l2nsbB9yTiuFOm+OgN/bCGBfdrBW8VD0IUmDNs2LDX/hBIaKGPAMZSpQNUeDzAp0Ys ykAbPCZH5EvV0sqTpie8tY2VgZl8z+xN+5Tj30clZ6NEhELg3PeJBHtA4Ajmzhasnpxb wTIp8ALs/Wl8lejdcStI8amNEuSBpkQt8D+Hs= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <84144f020902130122y471dd92em4a72de43a0cfc681@mail.gmail.com> References: <1234461073-23281-1-git-send-email-peppe.cavallaro@st.com> <20090212185640.GA6111@linux-sh.org> <499544AD.3030804@st.com> <84144f020902130122y471dd92em4a72de43a0cfc681@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:30:34 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ce2b06d1093e1523 Message-ID: <84144f020902130130k7d66bd0i7637ec0589d3bee1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] slab: fix slab flags for archs use alignment larger 64-bit From: Pekka Enberg To: Giuseppe CAVALLARO Cc: Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > That sounds unfortunate. Can you post > >  cat /proc/meminfo | grep Slab > > results on sh without and with your patch? Bumping the limit up to > ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN does make sense but we'd need to know what kind > of problems it might cause. You probably want to fix up the issues Paul raised, though.