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Message-ID: <20201018113305.091946ff@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:33:05 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        Christian Eggers <ceggers@...i.de>,
        Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] net: dsa: add plumbing for custom netdev
 statistics

On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:26:53 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Hm, looks like the intent is to enforce power of two alignment 
> to prevent the structure from spanning cache lines. Doesn't make 
> any difference for 1 counter, but I guess we can keep the style 
> for consistency.

I take that back, looks like seqcount_t is 4B, so it will make
a difference, don't mind me :)

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