Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 2010 08:53:41 +0300 | Subject | Re: [BUG] SLOB breaks Crypto | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi David,
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:40 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > I don't even know of a 32-bit chip outside of x86 that doesn't > potentially emit alignment requiring 64-bit memory operations for > 64-bit objects. So what SLOB is doing with a different default is > even more strange. And I bet you that even without the requirement, > x86 runs faster with 64-bit alignment of 64-bit objects.
Faster, sure, but SLOB is not about being fast, it's about being space efficient.
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