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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