Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:36 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Lockless SLUB slowpaths for v3.1-rc1 |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> We haven't come up with a solution to keep struct page size the same but I > think it's a reasonable trade-off.
The change requires the page struct to be aligned to a double word boundary. There is actually no variable added to the page struct. Its just the alignment requirement that causes padding to be added after each page struct.
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