Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271133AbUJVAtl (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:49:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271020AbUJVAqh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:46:37 -0400 Received: from smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.96]:27260 "HELO smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271133AbUJVAeU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:34:20 -0400 Message-ID: <41785585.6030809@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:34:13 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040726 Debian/1.7.1-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline References: <20041021011714.GQ24619@dualathlon.random> <417728B0.3070006@yahoo.com.au> <20041020213622.77afdd4a.akpm@osdl.org> <417837A7.8010908@yahoo.com.au> <20041021224533.GB8756@dualathlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20041021224533.GB8756@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 18 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >looks reasonable. only cons is that this rejects on my tree ;), pages_* >and protection is gone in my tree, replaced by watermarks[] using the >very same optimal and proven algo of 2.4 (enabled by default of course). >I'll reevaluate the false sharing later on. > May I again ask what you think is wrong with ->protection[] apart from it being turned off by default? (I don't think our previous conversation ever reached a conclusion...) - 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/