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

[Manfred Spraul]

Christoph Lameter wrote:

> So Redzoning etc will now be diabled regardless even if  
> ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is not set but another alignment is given to 
> kmem_cache_alloc?
>  
kmem_cache_create().

> So we sacrifice the ability to worsen the performance of slabs by 
> misaligning them for debugging purposes.
>  
If a slab user can live with misaligned objects, then he shouldn't set 
align. Thus we do not sacrifice anything.

--
   Manfred
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