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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:05:33 +0300
From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] slab: always follow arch requested alignments
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On 7/26/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> Your patch only deals with ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN. kmem_cache_create() never
> uses ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN only kmem_cache_init() does by passing it to
> kmem_cache_create.  ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN will still be ignored.

Yes, in which case the caller mandated align will be, well,
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. The patch changes kmem_cache_create to respect
caller mandated alignment too.

                                        Pekka