Re: [PATCH] x86: cacheline_align tss_struct

[Ingo Molnar]

* Richard Kennedy <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The manual padding to align on cacheline size only worked in 32 bit
> In 64 bit the structure was not aligned and contained wasted space.
>     
> use the compiler ____cachline_aligned to save space & properly align
> this structure.
>     
> x86_64_default size goes from 9136 -> 8960
> x86_64_AMD     size goes from 9136 -> 8896

applied to tip/x86/cleanups - thanks Richard!

	Ingo
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