On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Ok so debugging was off but the slab cache has a ctor callback which > mandates that the free pointer cannot use the free object space when > the object is not in use. Thus the size of the object must be increased to > accomodate the freepointer.
Thanks a lot for working that out. Makes sense, fully understood now, nothing to worry about (though makes one wonder whether it's efficient to use ctors on high-alignment caches; or whether an internal "zero-me" ctor would be useful). Hugh
