Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760728AbYCGD6f (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:58:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751588AbYCGD6Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:58:24 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:38450 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbYCGD6X (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:58:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:58:06 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Nick Piggin cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment In-Reply-To: <20080307032251.GG21185@wotan.suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20080304.161003.129716254.davem@davemloft.net> <20080306025758.GB27150@wotan.suse.de> <20080307022355.GB21185@wotan.suse.de> <20080307023223.GD21185@wotan.suse.de> <20080307031044.GF21185@wotan.suse.de> <20080307032251.GG21185@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 476 Lines: 14 On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > Where do I argue that it reduces cacheline contention? All arguments > I made apply to a UP system equally. Huh? I thought you wanted to avoid cacheline alignment on UP to save memory? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/