From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 346006B0012 for ; Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:28:09 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] slob: push the min alignment to long long From: Pekka Enberg In-Reply-To: <1308237823.15617.451.camel@calx> References: <1308169466.15617.378.camel@calx> <1308171355.15617.401.camel@calx> <20110615.181148.650483947691740732.davem@davemloft.net> <1308178420.15617.447.camel@calx> <1308237823.15617.451.camel@calx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:28:03 +0300 Message-ID: <1308238083.29073.20.camel@jaguar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Matt Mackall Cc: David Miller , sebastian@breakpoint.cc, cl@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 10:23 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > I don't agree. I think we should either provide defaults that work for > > everyone and let architectures override them (which AFAICT Christoph's > > patch does) or we flat out #error if architectures don't specify > > alignment requirements. > > Uh, isn't the latter precisely what I say above? > > > The current solution seems to be the worst one > > from practical point of view. > > Good, because no one's advocating for it. Sorry, I totally misunderstood what you wrote! Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org