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Date: 08 Aug 2006 11:58:39 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Shai Fultheim (Shai@...lex86.org)" <shai@...lex86.org>,
pravin b shelar <pravin.shelar@...softinc.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] NUMA futex hashing
Jes Sorensen <jes@....com> writes:
>
> Using that argument, all you need to do is to add the alignment
> ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to the definition of
> struct futex_hash_bucket and the problem is solved, given that the
> internode cacheline in a NUMA system is defined to be the same as the
> SMP cacheline size.
Yes but it would waste quite a lot of memory and cache.
Wasted cache = slow.
-Andi
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