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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Idle balancer: cache align nohz structure to improve idle load balancing scalability
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:24:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wrc0xpbg.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319060737.2604.38.camel@schen9-DESK> (Tim Chen's message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:45:37 -0700")

Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> writes:
>   */
>  static struct {
> -	atomic_t load_balancer;
> -	atomic_t first_pick_cpu;
> -	atomic_t second_pick_cpu;
> -	cpumask_var_t idle_cpus_mask;
> +	atomic_t load_balancer ____cacheline_aligned;
> +	atomic_t first_pick_cpu ____cacheline_aligned;
> +	atomic_t second_pick_cpu ____cacheline_aligned;
> +	cpumask_var_t idle_cpus_mask ____cacheline_aligned;

On large configs idle_cpu_masks may be allocated.  May need
more changes to tell the allocator to cache align/pad too?

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 21:45 [Patch] Idle balancer: cache align nohz structure to improve idle load balancing scalability Tim Chen
2011-10-20  4:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-20  5:57   ` Suresh Siddha
2011-10-20  6:43     ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-20 17:19   ` Tim Chen
2011-10-20  4:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-10-20 12:26   ` Venki Pallipadi
2011-10-20 17:31     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-10-20 17:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found]     ` <4FF5AC937153B0459463C1A88EB478F20135D6ECB5@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2011-11-01 23:52       ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-02 13:04         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-11-02 13:54         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-11-02 15:13           ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-14  9:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-14 19:37           ` Suresh Siddha

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