* SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN question
@ 2001-11-30 18:54 Dipankar Sarma
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From: Dipankar Sarma @ 2001-11-30 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Greetings.
Why does SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN forces alignment on L1_CACHE_BYTES
and not SMP_CACHE_BYTES ? Does this have anything to do with
fitting cache objects in a single L1 cache line even when it
is uniprocessor and SMP_CACHE_BYTES is no equal to L1_CACHE_BYTES ?
Thanks
Dipankar
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