Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:48:10 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: cacheline_align tss_struct |
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* Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The manual padding to align on cacheline size only worked in 32 bit > In 64 bit the structure was not aligned and contained wasted space. > > use the compiler ____cachline_aligned to save space & properly align > this structure. > > x86_64_default size goes from 9136 -> 8960 > x86_64_AMD size goes from 9136 -> 8896
applied to tip/x86/cleanups - thanks Richard!
Ingo
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