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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:37:28 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:26:24PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Internode alignment is 4k. If you need an object aligned like that then it 
> may be better to go to the page allocator.

But you don't need an object aligned like that unless you are VSMP.