Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:47:39 +0200 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/35] workqueue: update cwq alignement |
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:42:22PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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?
It means the size of the struct itself doesn't need to aligned to anything.
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