Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:30:29 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Reorganizing structs to save space |
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:28:48AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > module 16960 16848 112
That's huge.
> struct module_ref ref[255]; /* 480 16320 */
Huh. That's this:
struct module_ref { local_t count; } ____cacheline_aligned;
This is horrible. Surely there's some way to do better than a cacheline per module per possible CPU. We should only need 4 bytes per module per online CPU.
And really, about the only case where we actually care about cacheline bouncing here at all is on modules that do this per-packet. Just about everyone else can get by with 4 bytes per module total.
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