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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] net drivers and cache alignment
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:30:45 -0800 (PST)
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   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
   Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:29:16 -0800

   Jeff Garzik wrote:
   > Attached is cut #2.  Thanks for all the near-instant feedback so far :)
   >   Andrew, does the attached still need padding on SMP?
   
   It needs padding _only_ on SMP.  ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.
   
non-smp machines lack L2 caches?  That's new to me :-)

More seriously, there are real benefits on non-SMP systems.