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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2009-07-03 00:08:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-03 13:26:38 +0200 |
| commit | bbf2a330d92c5afccfd17592ba9ccd50f41cf748 (patch) | |
| tree | b7c794efa0de27875268f94c96bf69cf5053deb5 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 029e5b1636d0511ef143af3a20c83c48e44c03f3 (diff) | |
x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too
Locked instructions on two cache lines at once are painful. If
atomic64_t uses two cache lines, my test program is 10x slower.
The chance for that is significant: 4/32 or 12.5%.
Make sure an atomic64_t is 8 bytes aligned.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
[ changed it to __aligned(8) as per Andrew's suggestion ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h index 2503d4e64c2..ae0fbb5b057 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static inline int atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u) /* An 64bit atomic type */ typedef struct { - unsigned long long counter; + unsigned long long __aligned(8) counter; } atomic64_t; #define ATOMIC64_INIT(val) { (val) } |