Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab

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To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:10:43 -0700
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-block <linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-mm <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>, Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "open list:XFS FILESYSTEM" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 9/24/18 8:28 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

[ ... ] Because if we have to
round all allocations below 64 bytes up to 64 bytes, [ ... ]

Have you noticed that in another e-mail in this thread it has beenexplained why it is not necessary on x86 to align buffers allocated bykmalloc() on a 64-byte boundary even if these buffers are used for DMA?


Bart.

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