SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN question

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 13:54:11 EST

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Greetings.

Why does SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN forces alignment on L1_CACHE_BYTES
and not SMP_CACHE_BYTES ? Does this have anything to do with
fitting cache objects in a single L1 cache line even when it
is uniprocessor and SMP_CACHE_BYTES is no equal to L1_CACHE_BYTES ?

Thanks
Dipankar

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Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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