Messages in this thread | | | From | Hubertus Franke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) | Date | Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:55:20 -0500 |
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On Friday 08 March 2002 03:40 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > So I would suggest making the size (and thus alignment check) of locks at > > least 8 bytes (and preferably 16). That makes it slightly harder to put > > locks on the stack, but gcc does support stack alignment, even if the > > code sucks right now. > > Can we go to cache line alignment - for an array of locks thats clearly > advantageous
NO and let me explain.
I would to be able to integrate the lock with the data. This is much more cache friendly then putting the lock on a different cacheline.
If you want an array you need to pad each element. That's easy enough to do.... Can't shrink a datastructure on the other hand :-)
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