On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > So if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please express it (preferably > in a formal way such as Acked-by), otherwise it seems the patch will be > dropped (due to a private NACK, apparently). I think we absolutely need something like this, and I'm sick and tired of the people just claiming there is no problem. >From the user POV I don't care if aligned allocations need a new GFP_ALIGNED flag or not, but as far as I can tell the latter will probably cause more overhead in practice than not having it. So unless someone comes up with a better counter proposal to provide aligned kmalloc of some form that doesn't require a giant amount of boilerplate code in the users: Acked^2-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
