Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 00:24:11 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN question |
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Greetings.
Why does SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN forces alignment on L1_CACHE_BYTES and not SMP_CACHE_BYTES ? Does this have anything to do with fitting cache objects in a single L1 cache line even when it is uniprocessor and SMP_CACHE_BYTES is no equal to L1_CACHE_BYTES ?
Thanks Dipankar -- Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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