On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:37 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 23 Nov 2005, at 15:07, Luck, Tony wrote: > > >> It's not hard to support arbitrary alignment, at the cost of burning > >> some space. We should probably do that. > > > > The "we" in that last sentence is the Xen team ... referring > > to making fixes to xmalloc? > > Correct. But I've thought more on it and I guess that actually the > number of cases where we have structures with alignment requirements > stricter than SMP_CACHE_BYTES will be very small. In fact I can't think > of any in Xen right now. :-) Right, which was why the original BUG_ON() which started this discussion... Rusty. -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman - 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 Thu Nov 24 10:23:23 2005
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