Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:10:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: pre-2.1.132-2.. |
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> >On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >> Since we just waste 64*4 byte in the struct, we could waste 16 more bytes >> to be completly aligned I think... > >this we'd have to make it a runtime pointer. Even if we could fix it up >compile-time, the .section solution i suggested is better because we will >not waste 'partial buffers', we will tightly pack cache-aligned structures >into a continuous chunk.
Ah OK, that way we will waste 32byte/2 in mean only one time even if there will be many structures that want to be cache aligned in the kernel.
Andrea Arcangeli
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