On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > The allocation of buffers >= PAGE_SIZE even when allocated with > kmalloc() are page-aligned though right? It's not an explicit guarantee > but is it not always the case? Its typically the case but debug options may misalign the object. The guarantee for kmalloc caches is to be cacheline aligned. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html