> Ideally there should be a MACRO that is defined to WORD_SIZE on cache-coherent > ARCHs and to SMP_CACHE_BYTES on none-cache-coherent systems and use that size > at the __align() attribute. (So only stupid ARCHES get hurt) this seems to come up repeatedly -- I had a proposal a _long_ time ago that never quite got merged, cf http://lwn.net/Articles/2265/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/2269/ -- from 2002 (!?). The idea is to go a step further and create a __dma_buffer annotation for structure members. Maybe I should resurrect that work one more time? - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html