Hi David, On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 11:59 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Matt Mackall <m...@selenic.com> > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:33:55 -0500 > >> SLOB honors ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN. If your arch has alignment >> requirements, I recommend you set it. > > I recommend that the alignment provided by the allocator is not > determined by which allocator I happen to have enabled. > > The values and ifdef'ery should be identical in all of our > allocators.
Why? It doesn't make much sense for SLOB, which tries to be as space efficient as possible, as a default. If things break on sparc, it really needs to set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN as slab default alignment is not something you really want to depend on. Pekka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html