From 6f28d9750c7e601900ff7dc2a2d570af1e15a332 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Ren <jack.ren@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:16:48 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 target/board/generic_x86/BoardConfig.mk | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/board/generic_x86/BoardConfig.mk b/target/board/generic_x86/BoardConfig.mk
index c62b0a457..35a55201f 100644
--- 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