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Subject: Re: block: DMA alignment of IO buffer allocated from slab
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Jens Axboe wrote:

> The situation is making me a little uncomfortable, though. If we export
> such a setting, we really should be honoring it...

Various subsystems create custom slab arrays with their particular
alignment requirement for these allocations.