From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760530Ab2CTPPK (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:15:10 -0400 Received: from smtp103.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com ([76.13.13.42]:21426 "HELO smtp103.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1760165Ab2CTPPI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:15:08 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: gENDUIUVM1lYBJIGiNOOLjsWLC8tLvhAhlFbDJATJobLsYT bHKcSKapJoMUlv5ZckDTurRLUZO3V22ZdlhiFXeuDDacgyuBRn.qYqH5rxFb tnNipdVlAQFp8aUDy02LTe5cF1xb_jdxZkj4i30EYRY_BhfYqMxBMISQTyMP f_RBapp672.J3XOgqn0gcvSYFvsFHHPClTUw.KYyQTgINVSCjGEczs0d2cHW _C2g6dXPKaTeBtErhvPEgHk7cFT2gVxf2r9foMfgyU3t9a.DbUFOIMzEbi1h CdLQpki6dgTuHAO_lJWXGvJOC7G9aJaRQGU1GLy7NbX4tDvGZYM7dm1xMLlV MQEBk9AotoIApr6QxzXscM0_BzT6ok9vI.W24Pu2XqkCiLAr5HCXFwyONCFV ct3PwT3QsDDBkKLs9aRzoOxkMLvPFNglIifVZ X-Yahoo-SMTP: _Dag8S.swBC1p4FJKLCXbs8NQzyse1SYSgnAbY0- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:15:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: Lai Jiangshan cc: Pekka Enberg , Matt Mackall , Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] workqueue: use kmalloc_align() instead of hacking In-Reply-To: <1332238884-6237-7-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <1332238884-6237-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> <1332238884-6237-7-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > kmalloc_align() makes the code simpler. Another approach would be to simply create a new slab cache using kmem_cache_create() with the desired alignment and allocate from that.