From: "Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
>
> No it's not. We only want to force alignment on global varaiables.
> 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.
>
What about defining a DECLARE_SPINLOCK() macro similar to DECLARE_MUTEX()?
__cacheline_aligned for these variables is IMHO architecture specific, and
doesn't belong into kernel/sched.c.
--
Manfred
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