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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:29:06 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> 
>> Mark the runqueues ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to avoid false sharing.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> False sharing for a per cpu data structure? Are we updating that 
> structure from other processors?

Primarily in the load balancer, but also in wakeups.


-- wli