Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment

Christoph Lameter
2008-03-07T02:27:24Z

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> That's just because you (apparently still) have a misconception about what
> the flag is supposed to be for. It is not for aligning things to the start
> of a cacheline boundary. It is not for avoiding false sharing on SMP. It

The alignment of the object to the start of a cacheline is the obvious
meaning and that is also reflected in the comment in slab.h.