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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:22:31 -0800 (PST)
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: Q: explicit alignment control for the slab allocator
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Manfred, why are you changing the cache alignment to
SMP_CACHE_BYTES?  If you read the original SLAB papers
and other documents, the code intends to color the L1
cache not the L2 or subsidiary caches.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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