Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:07:56 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] slub: ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN defaults to 8 on x86_32. is this too big? |
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On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:22:26PM +0000, Richard Kennedy wrote: > Can I define a ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN in x86_64 to sizeof(void *) ? > or would it be ok to change the default in slub.c to sizeof(void *) ? > Note that this is precisely what ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN was introduced to avoid (BYTES_PER_WORD alignment used to be the default for slab, before ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN was introduced). Consider the case of 64-bit platforms using a 32-bit ABI, the native alignment remains 64-bit while sizeof(void *) == 4. There are a number of (mainly embedded) architectures that support these sorts of configurations in-tree.
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