From: "Allen Curtis" <acurtis@onz.com>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"Jasmine Strong" <jasmine@hex.linuxgrrls.org>
Cc: "John Hall" <John.Hall@optionexist.co.uk>,
"Linux MTD list \(E-mail\)" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: RE: Stable cvs version for 2.4
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:46:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NCBBIINEHIPFGJPLBEIFAEKJDLAA.acurtis@onz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547.1031150220@redhat.com>
> At a gratuitous extra 4 bytes per object, that's... ok, well it's only
> wasting 32KiB which is less than I expected, but it still annoys me.
>
> > (Architectures that don't always use word-aligned pointers include
> > m68k and ARM Thumb.)
>
> Even when we're allocating from the slab and the object in question is a
> structure of size which is an even number?
How about we add 1 byte which contains up to 8 bit fields? Using bits in
pointer values sounds a lot like old Mac programming. Caution Will
Robinson....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-03 10:09 Stable cvs version for 2.4 John Hall
2002-09-03 12:29 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 0:18 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 1:14 ` Jasmine Strong
2002-09-04 8:51 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 14:21 ` Jasmine Strong
2002-09-04 14:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 14:46 ` Allen Curtis [this message]
2002-09-04 14:54 ` Jasmine Strong
2002-09-04 15:17 ` Steve Wahl
2002-09-04 15:26 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 15:20 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 15:33 ` Jasmine Strong
2002-09-04 15:44 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 15:50 ` Allen Curtis
2002-09-04 15:54 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-04 14:49 ` Jasmine Strong
2002-09-04 15:06 ` David Woodhouse
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