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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 19:41:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 2.4: why is NR_GFPINDEX so large?
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>Does ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp guarantee the _size_ of the object is
>aligned, or merely its address?

Only its address. It uses the attribute aligned of gcc.

Andrea

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