Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline

Nick Piggin
2004-10-25T12:49:42Z

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I'll adapt the rest of the code to deal with this and test it in a few
> more minutes.
>

The current stuff is pretty crufty. I think your changes are
far better (aside from the minor fact they won't compile!).

Also, switching to a calculation that has seen some real-world
use would be a good idea before we think about turning it on
by default.