On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > So we sacrifice the ability to worsen the performance of slabs by > > misaligning them for debugging purposes. > > > If a slab user can live with misaligned objects, then he shouldn't set align. > Thus we do not sacrifice anything. A slab user is setting alignment in order to optimize performance not for correctness. Most users that I know of can live with misalignments. If that would not be the case then this code would never have worked. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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