From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:20:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] avoid unaligned access when accessing poll stack Message-Id: <20060331102053.2a440f81.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jes Sorensen Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote: > > [PATCH] Optimize select/poll by putting small data sets on the stack > resulted in the poll stack being 4-byte aligned on 64-bit > architectures, causing misaligned accesses to elements in the array. How come you noticed this but I did not?