Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86_64: fix L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX for Intel EM64T [for 2.6.14?]

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Wednesday 26 October 2005 00:24, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > No correctness issues, obviously. So this could even be merged for 2.6.14
> > (I'm not a fan of this idea, though).
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to mess with this for 2.6.14

> In general the maxaligned stuff is imho bogus and should be removed. That
> is what CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is for. It doesn't make sense imho to separate
> the variables in two aligned classes - either they should be aligned in all
> cases or they shouldn't.

For what I see, that's based on the tradeoff between space and contention - 
for instance there are few zones only, so there's no big waste. In practice, 
interpreting !X86_GENERIC as "I will run this kernel on _this_ processor" 
could also be done.

However, in case you didn't note, max_align is never enough on EM64T 
currently, right?
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