Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:46:13 +0100 (CET) | From | MOLNAR Ingo <> | Subject | Re: pre-2.1.132-2.. |
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Note that we probably don't have a cache-line per CPU anyway, because > there is nothing to force proper alignment of the irq_desc[] array.
instead of living with the imperfect alignment, in 2.3 we might want to create an 'smp_aligned' section (just like initdata), which is checked during kernel build (after linkage) against alignment violations. (it would be word aligned in the UP compilation case)
-- mingo
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