Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3

From: Siddha, Suresh B
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 11:06:37 EST


On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:24:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> >
> > Mark the runqueues ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to avoid false sharing.
>
> False sharing for a per cpu data structure? Are we updating that
> structure from other processors?

yes. during a remote process wakeup.
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