Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:16:44 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [rfc][patch 1/3] slub: fix small HWCACHE_ALIGN alignment |
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object to be aligned at > > cacheline boundaries for optimization. Why does crossing cacheline > > boundaries matter in this case? > > No, HWCACHE_ALIGN means that you want the object not to cross cacheline > boundaries for at least cache_line_size() bytes. You invented new
Interesting new definition....
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