On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:26:28PM +0200, Andreas Dilger wrote: > IIRC there was also a good reason for this in the past, related to > the buffers being submitted to the block device layer, and if they > were allocated from the slab cache with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB or something > similar enabled the buffer would be misaligned and cause grief. So what does SLAB/SLUB/SLOB do if we create a slab cache which is a power of two? Can one of the allocators still return misaligned blocks of memory in some circumstances? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
