Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:42:00 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] net drivers and cache alignment |
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"David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> > Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:29:16 -0800 > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Attached is cut #2. Thanks for all the near-instant feedback so far :) > > Andrew, does the attached still need padding on SMP? > > It needs padding _only_ on SMP. ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp. > > non-smp machines lack L2 caches? That's new to me :-) > > More seriously, there are real benefits on non-SMP systems.
Then I am most confused. None of these fields will be put under busmastering or anything like that, so what advantage is there in spreading them out? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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