O> I'm counting on kmalloc to return a cache aligned buffer. I found > some reason to think it does, but I don't remember offhand what that Its defined to > reason was, or if it's configurable per-architecture. The buffer has > to be both physically and virtually contiguous, I was tempted to just > allocate a page and waste some space but we've got 64K pages, so I'm a > bit more sensitive about that. Ok I was expecting a different approach if you mark the field with the magic ____cacheline_aligned tag after it (ie int foo ____blah_aligned;) the compiler should align it all for you , which is probably cleaner if it works. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
