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SubjectRe: pre-2.1.132-2..

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.

-- mingo


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