Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:30:37 +0530
From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] Make slab allocator work with SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:39:42PM +0530, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> The patch I posted earlier takes care of 1 & 2, but arbitraty alignment takes
> care of all 4, and as you mentioned the patch is small enough.  If interface

While we are at it, we should also probably look up the cache line
size for a cpu family from a table, store it in some per-cpu data
(cpuinfo_x86 ?) and provide an l1_cache_bytes() api to
return it at run time.

Thanks
Dipankar
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