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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"'Linux Kernel ML'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alignment for CPU maps, add padding semantics
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:39:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040712083930.GA2324@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <S266631AbUGKWxO/20040711225314Z+1231@vger.kernel.org>


Hi,

> The attached patch add missing alignments for CPU maps (cpu_online_map,
> node_2_cpu_mask, cpu_2_node, cpu_2_logical_apicid).  It allows better
> cache-line utilization by having the most usable part of each map on
> same cache-line.

These bitmaps are pretty much readonly and 4 bytes on most machines and 
this change makes them up to 128 bytes long. They are also naturally
aligned in the 4 byte case so cannot cross a cacheline boundary.

It makes much more sense to have all these readonly structures packed
together in the same cacheline.

Anton

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-12 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-11 22:53 [PATCH] Alignment for CPU maps, add padding semantics Shai Fultheim
2004-07-12  8:39 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
     [not found] <200407112253.i6BMrEws001373@fire-2.osdl.org>
2004-07-12  5:07 ` Andrew Morton

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