Re: slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN

2007-04-17 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:35:21PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is > > 1. Never checked by SLAB at all. > > 2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB > > 3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB. > > The only remaining use is in sparc64 and p

Re: slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN

2007-04-17 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 4/17/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is 1. Never checked by SLAB at all. 2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB 3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB. The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there r

slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN

2007-04-16 Thread Christoph Lameter
The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is 1. Never checked by SLAB at all. 2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB 3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB. The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have