linux-kernel - Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:05:33 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>
Cc:	"Heiko Carstens" <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments

On 7/26/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:
> Your patch only deals with ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN. kmem_cache_create() never
> uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN only kmem_cache_init() does by passing it to
> kmem_cache_create.  ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN will still be ignored.

Yes, in which case the caller mandated align will be, well,
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. The patch changes kmem_cache_create to respect
caller mandated alignment too.

                                        Pekka
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