x86: customize the malloced address to be 16-byte aligned

That can gain better memory performance than 8-byte alignment Change-Id: Ibcc5bf7b96ed10166038357dd0c86c9171768f3e Signed-off-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bruce Beare <bruce.j.beare@intel.com>
savs · May 8, 2012 · 6f28d97 · 6f28d97
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diff --git a/target/board/generic_x86/BoardConfig.mk b/target/board/generic_x86/BoardConfig.mk
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ BOARD_USES_GENERIC_AUDIO := true
 # no hardware camera
 USE_CAMERA_STUB := true
 
+# customize the malloced address to be 16-byte aligned
+BOARD_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT := 16
+
 # Set /system/bin/sh to ash, not mksh, to make sure we can switch back.
 TARGET_SHELL := ash