Re: [PATCH] alloc_percpu() fails to allocate percpu data

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> I think so. If we ask for HWCACHE_ALIGN, it must be for a good reason.
> If some structures get too bloated for no good reason, then the problem
> is not with the slab allocator but with the caller asking for
> HWCACHE_ALIGN.

Right. There should only be a few select users of this strange flag. 
Otherwise if a certain alignment is wanted specify it in the alignment 
parameter passed to kmem_cache_create.

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