Re: how does kernel get the "current" task struct?

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 15:25:19 EST


Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > I guess that's what I said too, but I don't see why aligning the zone is
> > needed. May as well leave zones representing actual memory ranges,
> > rather than some artificially aligned ranges for no obvious reason.
>
> As I said, there may be hardware requirements where certain drivers need
> aligned large allocations, and if you don't align the zone, you can't do
> that.

I'm lost. I know you need aligned allocations. I don't see why you
have to align a zone to get aligned allocations.

-- Jamie

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