> I fail to see how the 32 * k is related to alignment. It's only used for > to pad the total size so it becomes a mulitple of k * 32. That is ok > since we want k 32-byte aligned chunks. The alignment for each chunk is > just 32-bytes. Yes, agreed! The alignment for each chunk should be 32 bytes. And the implementation is most efficient if the given encoding buffer is already padded to k*32 bytes, it avoids an additional buffer allocation and copy. Cheers Andreas.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html