On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 13:32 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Tim Chen wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
> > index d5dd465..5ca7df5 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
> > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct percpu_counter {
> > struct list_head list; /* All percpu_counters are on a list */
> > #endif
> > s32 __percpu *counters;
> > + int *batch ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> > };
>
> What is this for and why does it have that alignmend?
I was assuming that if batch is frequently referenced, it probably
should not share a cache line with the counters field.
Tim
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