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SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] slab: always consider arch mandated alignment
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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Manfred
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