On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 09:12:04AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > How about this instead? > > Subject: workqueues: Use new kmem cache to get aligned memory for workqueues > > The workqueue logic currently improvises by doing a kmalloc allocation and > then aligning the object. Create a slab cache for that purpose with the > proper alignment instead. > > Cleans up the code and makes things much simpler. No need anymore to carry > an additional pointer to the beginning of the kmalloc object. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> I don't know. At this point, this is only for singlethread and unbound workqueues and we don't have too many of them left at this point. I'd like to avoid creating a slab cache for this. How about just leaving it be? If we develop other use cases for larger alignments, let's worry about implementing something common then. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>