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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: book3e_64: fix the align size for paca_struct
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:31:25 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1425886285.4636.241.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150309011314.GA13617@pek-khao-d1.corp.ad.wrs.com>

On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 09:13 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 08:13:26PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 19:14 +0800, Kevin Hao wrote:
> > > All the cache line size of the current book3e 64bit SoCs are 64 bytes.
> > > So we should use this size to align the member of paca_struct.
> > > With this change we save 192 bytes. Also change it to __aligned(size)
> > > since it is preferred over __attribute__((aligned(size))).
> > 
> > Why should we favor the book3e CPUs over the book3s ones ?
> 
> Why do you think so? This only change the align size of the paca_struct's
> members which are private to book3e CPUs, and should not have any effect
> to book3s ones. Did I miss something?

No, your explanation was lacking that important detail :-)

> Thanks,
> Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-07 11:14 [PATCH] powerpc: book3e_64: fix the align size for paca_struct Kevin Hao
2015-03-08  9:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-09  1:13   ` Kevin Hao
2015-03-09  7:31     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2015-03-10 12:21       ` Kevin Hao

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