On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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. We could write a function that identifies a compatible kmalloc cache or creates a new one if necessary. That would cut down overhead similar to what slub merge is doing but allows more control by the developer. -- 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>