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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"'Linux Kernel ML'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Jes Sorensen'" <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
	mort@wildopensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PER_CPU [4/4] - PER_CPU-irq_stat
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:57:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040712085752.GB2324@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040712044410.46293162B72@lists.samba.org>


> Anyhow, since that also accesses by other CPUs (not a lot...), I think it's
> better to keep it aligned (the utilization of per-cpu areas is so low now
> that it doesn't really matter).

Ive seen the per cpu data area exceed 32kB on ppc64. Considering the L1
dcache on POWER4 is only 32kB Id prefer not to bloat it any more than
necessary.

Anton

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-09  9:54 [PATCH] PER_CPU [4/4] - PER_CPU-irq_stat Shai Fultheim
2004-07-12  0:02 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-07-12  4:44   ` Shai Fultheim
     [not found]   ` <200407120444.i6C4iAws031156@fire-2.osdl.org>
2004-07-12  5:11     ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-12  5:19       ` Shai Fultheim
     [not found]   ` <20040712044410.46293162B72@lists.samba.org>
2004-07-12  8:57     ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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