From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Mark Mason <mason@postdiluvian.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: align shost->hostdata to cacheline
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:48:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B40E51.3060002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B3AFDC.5040605@gmail.com>
shost->hostdata can contain arbitrary data including DMA target
buffers. Align it to cacheline.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
---
James, what do you think?
include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
index 5c58d59..3876d24 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_host.h
@@ -663,12 +663,10 @@ struct Scsi_Host {
void *shost_data;
/*
- * We should ensure that this is aligned, both for better performance
- * and also because some compilers (m68k) don't automatically force
- * alignment to a long boundary.
+ * Used for storage of host specific stuff. As it may contain
+ * arbitrary data, align it to cacheline.
*/
- unsigned long hostdata[0] /* Used for storage of host specific stuff */
- __attribute__ ((aligned (sizeof(unsigned long))));
+ unsigned long hostdata[0] ____cacheline_aligned;
};
#define class_to_shost(d) \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-14 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 18:02 libata/sata_sil24 cache alignment problem? Mark Mason
2008-02-12 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-12 23:36 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-13 2:13 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13 2:32 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-13 18:47 ` Mark Mason
2008-02-13 20:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-13 21:25 ` Mark Mason
2008-02-14 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-14 3:05 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-14 9:44 ` [PATCH] libata: align ap->sector_buf to cacheline Tejun Heo
2008-02-14 9:48 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-02-14 15:05 ` [PATCH] scsi: align shost->hostdata " James Bottomley
2008-02-14 22:49 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-15 18:57 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-21 2:32 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-13 18:51 ` libata/sata_sil24 cache alignment problem? Mark Mason
2008-02-12 23:25 ` Thomas Evans
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