Le mercredi 13 janvier 2016 à 10:44 +0200, Sagi Grimberg a écrit : > > Anyway, I'm not sure about the alignment of the memory returned by > > kcalloc(), I should have known by the time but don't find time to > > figure how it's handled on various SL*B allocator implementation. > > Can you explain why should I worry about the alignment of kcalloc > here? Say it returns memory aligned on 16 bytes, then accessing some items in the array is going to touch 2 cachelines, defeating the purpose of the padding or the alignment attribute added to the item structure. Regards. -- Yann Droneaud OPTEYA -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
