On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:56:19PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <20020726125605.A2822@phreaker.net> you write:
> > This patch was not meant to be a definitive fix for do_gettimeofday.
> > I thought having diffrent locks on the same cacheline was bad. Atleast,
> > I don't think there'd be any negative performance impact due to my patch.
> > Pls correct me if I am wrong.
>
> Did you ever wonder why we don't declare spinlock to be ____cacheline_aligned?
Yep...and for long enough...(I think..)..or there'd have been an RFC
or a stupid question to lkml sometime from me :)
> While it's probably justified in this case, you pay for it in a slight
> increase in size...
>
I thought you were of the opinion that "memory is cheap" ;-)
-Kiran
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