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

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 15:18:57 EST


Hi,

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:40:38 +0100, Jamie Lokier
<lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:

> 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.

--Stephen

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