Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object to be aligned at 
> > cacheline boundaries for optimization. Why does crossing cacheline 
> > boundaries matter in this case?
> 
> No, HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object not to cross cacheline
> boundaries for at least cache_line_size() bytes. You invented new

Interesting new definition....


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