On 23 Nov 2005, at 02:58, Tian, Kevin wrote: > Now I think even '16' can't cover all cases. It's possible for a user > defined structure with .align directive to force by '32' or larger, > and then allocator happens to have similar check upon SMP_CACHE_BYTES > like case in this thread. Because both structure definition and > allocator may have no idea about IA64 trick of saving space for UP. > Max alignment of any C style only solves the natural alignment case, > but not above forced one. We can just give its real assumption to > SMP_CACHE_BYTES - cache line size. ;-) It's not hard to support arbitrary alignment, at the cost of burning some space. We should probably do that. -- Keir - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Nov 23 20:14:35 2005
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