On 12/18/2014 06:52 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Dave Hansen wrote: >> > IOW, do *ALL* of the sl*b allocators in all of their forms with all of >> > their debugging options guarantee 32-byte alignment when allocating >> > 256-byte objects? > No. For that the arch has to set a macro call ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN or > ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. Default alignment is to a word boundary.
OK, sounds like this is going to need its own slab. It will make the patch a bit bigger but shouldn't be all that much more complicated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
