Re: [PATCH] Shrink rbtree

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:57 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > You can often get away with it - I notice we never added the same
> > alignment to struct anon_vma, which in theory needed it just as much.
> > Some accident of how structures are packed into slabs on CRIS, I suppose.
> 
> That sounds very strange to me, but it's harmless enough to add the
> explicit alignment.

It's occurred to me that the unusual thing about struct address_space
is that it does _not_ have a slab cache of its own: it's for years been
part of the struct inode itself; and I guess that exposes it to an
alignment issue which slab objects themselves avoid.  But still a
good idea to add the explicit alignment as doc.

Hugh