Re: pool: removing ioff?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

>> But, I wonder if this comes from the Solaris allocation design, and that
>> the ioff notion is not about alignment for 4/8 objects to fit the way
>> the CPU wants, but for say 128 byte objects to be lined up on various
>> different offsets in different pages to make caching work better.  But
>> perhaps that doesn't exist in NetBSD, or is done differently, or my
>> memory of the paper is off.
>
> Indeed, Sun's SLAB had cache coloring.
>
> We do too in our pool subsystem, that's not related to ioff, we don't
> lose it as a result of removing ioff.

Great to hear on both counts, thanks.