The thread pool provides user data to be stored by (pre-)allocating the
necessary memory. A previous attempt was made to have this user data
aligned on a 32 byte boundary (e.g., to prevent segfault with SIMD
instructions, or avoid inefficient data access); the current
implementation, however, leads to unaligned memory access.
This patch attempts again to implement user data to be 32 byte aligned.
First, use memalign() to allocate the actual job on a 32 byte boundary.
Second, use alignas(32) to align the pointer to the user data to be
aligned to 32 bytes. Since it is the last member of the struct, this
ensures that user data, which is allocated right behind it, will be
aligned to 32 bytes as well.
Robert Schmidt
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