On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 12:29:14PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> As you can see from the comment in asm-alpha/cache.h, something
> broke in networking when this was increased to 64. Someone ought
> to investigate this...
>
Yes, I noticed. Could it be reproduced on a ev56 UP?
> Putting the alignment on the spinlock wastes *lots* of space when
> spinlocks are put into structures. Consider such infrequently used
> items as inodes and sockets.
Hmm, agreed. But not aligned standalone spinlock is a bad thing too.
For example various locks may be placed dangerously close to each other
at the link stage.
Ivan.
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