On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: > Does this break slub's __cmpxchg_double_slab trick? I thought it > required page->freelist and page->counters to be doubleword-aligned.
Sure that would be required for it to work. > It's not like we really require this optimization when we're debugging, > but trying to use it will unnecessarily slow things down. Debugging by inserting more data into the page struct will already cause a significant slow down because the cache footprint of key functions will increase significantly. I would think that using the fallback functions is reasonable in this scenario, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
