>>>>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:59:01 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>>>>> said:
ralf> The alignment needs to be large enough to store an arbitrary
ralf> fundamental data type including the 64-bit types such as long
ralf> long or double.
ralf> cache_line_size() is only used if a slab has SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN
ralf> set.
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is default ARCH_KMALLOC_FLAGS, so normal kmalloc
will use cache_line_size() (if no ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN).
ralf> The alignment requirements are documented in
ralf> Documentation/DMA-API.txt and they are specified the way they
ralf> are for good reason.
Hmm... I had been thought of many PCI ether driver (which maps
skbuff), but I found skb_init() calls kmem_cache_create with
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN. Maybe I should learn much about it... Thank you.
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