On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:34:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > @@ -100,9 +100,10 @@ struct futex_q {
> > > struct futex_hash_bucket {
> > > spinlock_t lock;
> > > struct list_head chain;
> > > -};
> > > +} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
> > >
> > > -static struct futex_hash_bucket futex_queues[1<<FUTEX_HASHBITS];
> > > +static struct futex_hash_bucket futex_queues[1<<FUTEX_HASHBITS]
> > > + __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> > >
> >
> > How much memory does that thing end up consuming?
>
> I think a megabyte?
On most machines it would be 256 * 128 = 32k. or 16k on arches with 64B
cachelines. This looked like a simpler solution for spinlocks falling on
the same cacheline. So is 16/32k unreasonable?
Thanks,
Kiran
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