Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263943AbUCZFYI (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263944AbUCZFYI (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:08 -0500 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:21442 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263943AbUCZFYF (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:05 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16483.48754.946636.475447@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:24:02 -0800 To: Matt Mackall Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fw: potential /dev/urandom scalability improvement In-Reply-To: <20040326051532.GA4754@waste.org> References: <20040325141923.7080c6f0.akpm@osdl.org> <20040325224726.GB8366@waste.org> <16483.35656.864787.827149@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040325180014.29e40b65.akpm@osdl.org> <20040326041926.GG8366@waste.org> <16483.46826.466847.77987@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040326051532.GA4754@waste.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 15 >>>>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:15:32 -0600, Matt Mackall said: Matt> Ok, previous observation made no sense; I should really be taking a Matt> nap right now. Hopefully this next one will make more sense: it ought Matt> to be ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp as the zero-byte spinlock struct Matt> still forces alignment. Makes tons of sense, agreed. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/