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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] virtual-bus
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:18:54 +0200
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> Check shared ring status when stuffing a request.  If there are requests

That means you're bouncing cache lines all the time. Probably not a big
issue on single socket but could be on larger systems.

-Andi