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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PER_CPU [4/4] - PER_CPU-irq_stat
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> 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