Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: Remove misleading alignment claims

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On Sat, 16 Dec 2017, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The "third double word block" isn't on 32-bit systems.  The layout
> looks like this:

Right true.

> which is 32 bytes on 64-bit, but 20 bytes on 32-bit.  Nobody is trying
> to use the fact that it's double-word aligned today, so just remove the
> misleading claims.

Well there is the rcu field and the lru fields which I thought at some
point would become useful to locklessly update.

But it did not happen

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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