linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/35] workqueue: update cwq alignement

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Message-ID: <4C2A145E.8030608@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:42:22 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/35] workqueue: update cwq alignement

Hello,

On 06/29/2010 02:36 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> But then, if each cpu pointers are aligned, the struct itself doesn't need
> to be aligned in its size right? It would need to if multiple elements
> were allocated per cpu but for this struct we only have one per cpu. So
> what seems to matter wrt alignment is only the base pointer of these structs,
> not the size.

Yeap, sure, but how does it matter?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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