Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment |
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > So we sacrifice the ability to worsen the performance of slabs by > > misaligning them for debugging purposes. > > > If a slab user can live with misaligned objects, then he shouldn't set align. > Thus we do not sacrifice anything.
A slab user is setting alignment in order to optimize performance not for correctness. Most users that I know of can live with misalignments. If that would not be the case then this code would never have worked.
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