netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

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Message-ID: <20120610102252.GA6793@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:22:53 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 10:03 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > One question though: do we want to lay the structure
> > out so that the rx sync structure precedes the rx counters?
> > 
> 
> I am not sure its worth having holes in the structure, since its percpu
> data.
> 
> That would be 8 bytes lost per cpu and per device.

Right, I forgot it's per cpu.

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