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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:06:37 +0100 From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de> To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:16:44PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object to be aligned at > > > cacheline boundaries for optimization. Why does crossing cacheline > > > boundaries matter in this case? > > > > No, HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object not to cross cacheline > > boundaries for at least cache_line_size() bytes. You invented new > > Interesting new definition.... Huh?? It is not a new definition, it is exactly what SLAB does. And then you go and do something different and claim that you follow what slab does. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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