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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	andrea@suse.de, agruen@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slab-alignment-rework.patch in -mc
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:53:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082487225.9708.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040420112556.400ea49e.akpm@osdl.org>

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> But why would you choose to make the "SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN clear" case use
> sizeof(void*) rather than sizeof(int)?
so that if you kmalloc a struct the pointers in it don't cause unaligned
exceptions on 64 bit ;)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-20 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1082383751.6746.33.camel@f235.suse.de>
2004-04-19 16:25 ` slab-alignment-rework.patch in -mc Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-19 16:42   ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-20  0:26     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-20  7:24     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-20 14:49       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-20 17:23         ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-20 18:25           ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-20 18:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-04-21 17:22               ` Manfred Spraul
2004-04-21 21:46                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-20 18:53             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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