Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 2/3] slab: introduce SMP alignment

From: Nick Piggin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:37:28 +0100

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:26:24PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Internode alignment is 4k. If you need an object aligned like that then it 
> may be better to go to the page allocator.

But you don't need an object aligned like that unless you are VSMP.