Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:29:34 +0200
>Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
>
>>Andrew Morton a écrit :
>>
>>>The wheel spins around, slows then settles on.... 
>>>time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch!
>>>
>>>Presumably because the ____cacheline_aligned made vsyscall_gtod_data_t get
>>>too big.  Or something.
>>>
>>Very strange, since here I have plenty of available room (256 bytes) :
>>
>>ffffffffff600000 T vgettimeofday
>>ffffffffff60004e t vsysc2
>>ffffffffff600140 t vread_hpet
>>ffffffffff600150 t vread_tsc
>>ffffffffff600180 D __vsyscall_gtod_data
>>ffffffffff600280 D __vgetcpu_mode
>>ffffffffff6002c0 D __jiffies
>><lot of space (256 bytes)>
>>ffffffffff600400 T vtime
>>ffffffffff600413 t vsysc1
>>ffffffffff600800 T vgetcpu
>>ffffffffff600c00 T venosys_1
>>
>>It must depends on the compiler, and/or CONFIG_XXX options...
>>
>
>Badari's config triggered it for me.
>
>>Anyway, I think we can safely move __vgetcpu_mode & __jiffies to the 1024 
>>bytes area dedicated to vgetcpu() implementation. This saves 128 bytes from 
>>vsyscall_0 area.
>>
>>Could we add this patch instead of dropping 
>>time-smp-friendly-alignment-of-struct-clocksource.patch ?
>>
>
>When you tell me it works OK with Badari's config ;)
>
Yes. It did fix my problem.

Thanks,
Badari

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