Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:53:47 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/2] guarantee natural alignment for kmalloc() |
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 09:48:47AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Natural alignment to size is rather well defined, no? Would anyone ever > assume a larger one, for what reason? > It's now where some make assumptions (even unknowingly) for natural > There are two 'odd' sizes 96 and 192, which will keep cacheline size > alignment, would anyone really expect more than 64 bytes?
Presumably 96 will keep being aligned to 32 bytes, as aligning 96 to 64 just results in 128-byte allocations.
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