Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab

From: Christopher Lameter
Date: Mon Sep 24 2018 - 14:00:29 EST


On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Jens Axboe wrote:

> The situation is making me a little uncomfortable, though. If we export
> such a setting, we really should be honoring it...

Various subsystems create custom slab arrays with their particular
alignment requirement for these allocations.