Re: pre-2.1.132-2..

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Dec 1998 19:37:59 GMT


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981218170746.9730W-100000@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
By author: MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> > Since we just waste 64*4 byte in the struct, we could waste 16 more bytes
> > to be completly aligned I think...
>
> this we'd have to make it a runtime pointer. Even if we could fix it up
> compile-time, the .section solution i suggested is better because we will
> not waste 'partial buffers', we will tightly pack cache-aligned structures
> into a continuous chunk.
>

Don't need to do that, just pass __aligned__(()) unless the kernel
address *itself* isn't aligned. You're right about partial buffers,
though.

-hpa

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