From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752190Ab1LSGIc (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:08:32 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:36871 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752191Ab1LSGH7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:07:59 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Eric Dumazet , Tejun Heo Cc: linux-kernel , David Miller , Robin Holt Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: struct module_ref should contains long fields In-Reply-To: <1324053390.25554.50.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> References: <1324012057.2562.23.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20111216155408.GA31770@google.com> <1324051285.25554.37.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <1324053390.25554.50.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.6.1-1 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:18:45 +1030 Message-ID: <87hb0xnmbm.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:36:30 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le vendredi 16 décembre 2011 à 08:05 -0800, Tejun Heo a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > Its percpu data, there is no need to waste a full cache line per cpu for > > > this. > > > > Hmmm.... okay. I just don't like seeing arbitrary alignment there. > > Can you please add some comment explaining why the unusual alignment > > is used there? > > Yep, thanks for the review ! Thanks, applied! Cheers, Rusty.