On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:28:14AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > struct hpc_chunk { > > struct hpc_dma_desc desc; > > - u32 _padding; /* align to quadword boundary */ > > + u32 _padding[128/4 - 3]; /* align to biggest cache line size */ > ^^^^^^^^^ > (128 - sizeof(struct hpc_dma_desc))/4? yes, that's safer. Thank you. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]