Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:37:16 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment |
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
>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. > >
Which users do you know that set align and that can live with misalignments? As I wrote, there are no such users in my (i386) kernel.
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