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Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > You want two ways of specifying alignments?
> 
> I want a way to ask for SMP friendly allocation.

Then align the objects at cacheline boundaries by providing a value for 
the align parameter to kmem_cache_create().