Re: [PATCH] slab: respect architecture and caller mandated alignment

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jul 28 2006 - 11:18:05 EST


On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Heiko Carstens wrote:

> > You may want to document that change somewhere.
>
> It is already documented (see top of slab.c). The only thing that was
> wrong was that ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN and ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN didn't have
> the effect like one would expect from the documentation.

Some of the passages there are a bit fuzzy to me. This is the first time
though that we enforce these alignments for the SLAB_DEBUG case.
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