Re: malloc, thread and alignment

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:46:51PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > > Someone^TM should document the kernel CACHE_LINE_SIZE, coherency_unit,
 > > COHERENCY_UNIT, and figure out what it is worthwhile to expose MI to
 > > userland.  
 > 
 > Shouldn't malloc take care of that stuff, and enforce a minimal allocation
 > size based on hardware requirement? e.g.: you request one byte, malloc
 > allocates a chunk of 32 bytes. 

It does, for hard alignment requirements. Allocating only whole cache
lines doesn't seem remotely desirable.

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David A. Holland
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