Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:20:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Unified trace buffer |
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Also, I agree on the 4byte alignment, rather than the 8byte Steve seems > to favour.
Pretty much all CPUs word align on a 8 byte bounder (until we get those 128bit boxes running), but not all can word align on 4 bytes. I was hoping to make the buffer output somewhat the same across archs.
Otherwise, this is going to be quite a complex mess IMHO.
-- Steve
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