From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756138Ab3AGXsZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:48:25 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:64768 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755017Ab3AGXsX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:48:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:48:20 -0800 From: Kent Overstreet To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, zab@redhat.com, bcrl@kvack.org, jmoyer@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/32] aio: Give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines Message-ID: <20130107234820.GJ26407@google.com> References: <1356573611-18590-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1356573611-18590-23-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <20130103152512.009513a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130103152512.009513a1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:25:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:59:59 -0800 > Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > struct { > > - struct mutex ring_lock; > > + atomic_t reqs_active; > > } ____cacheline_aligned; > > Is there a reason why this guy remains aligned on CONFIG_SMP=n? No good one, but I see you've already fixed it in your tree.