Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: pre-2.1.132-2.. | Date | 18 Dec 1998 19:37:59 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981218170746.9730W-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> By author: MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > Since we just waste 64*4 byte in the struct, we could waste 16 more bytes > > to be completly aligned I think... > > this we'd have to make it a runtime pointer. Even if we could fix it up > compile-time, the .section solution i suggested is better because we will > not waste 'partial buffers', we will tightly pack cache-aligned structures > into a continuous chunk. >
Don't need to do that, just pass __aligned__(()) unless the kernel address *itself* isn't aligned. You're right about partial buffers, though.
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