Re: [GIT PULL] Lockless SLUB slowpaths for v3.1-rc1

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jul 29 2011 - 11:04:43 EST


On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> We haven't come up with a solution to keep struct page size the same but I
> think it's a reasonable trade-off.

The change requires the page struct to be aligned to a double word
boundary. There is actually no variable added to the page struct. Its just
the alignment requirement that causes padding to be added after each page
struct.

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