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SubjectRe: [PATCH] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp?
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:35:13 -0800 (PST)
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

> All of the submembers are placed at cacheline boundaries, which
> helps even on UP. If I meant cacheline aligned on SMP I would
> have used the corresponding macro :)

Hmm, you really want to weakly align it: you don't care if something follows it on
the cacheline, (ie. don't make it into an array, but it'd be nice if other
things could share the cacheline) in UP.

I don't think there's a way of doing that short of using asm?

It'd be nice if someone volunteered benchmarks. struct tcp_hashinfo takes
*two* whole cachlines, for example:

> -struct tcp_hashinfo __cacheline_aligned tcp_hashinfo = {
> +struct tcp_hashinfo __cacheline_aligned_in_smp tcp_hashinfo = {
>
> This definitely too.

The decl already puts the non-read-heavy members __cacheline_aligned:

extern struct tcp_hashinfo {
...
rwlock_t __tcp_lhash_lock ____cacheline_aligned;

*This* should probably be ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp, yes?

Thanks for the reply!
Rusty.
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many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy
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