Re: iwlagn: order 2 page allocation failures

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Zhu Yi wrote:

> BTW, does SLAB/SLUB guarantee size of multiple PAGE_SIZE __kmalloc()
> allocation align on PAGE_SIZE (or 256 bytes) boundary?

Page allocators guarantee page aligned data. Slab allocators do not.

You can create a slab that aligns objects on 256 byte boundary if you
want.


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