netdev - Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

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Message-ID: <20080307053728.GL21185@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:37:28 +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 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

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.
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