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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:49:32 +1000
From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
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Subject: Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> I'll adapt the rest of the code to deal with this and test it in a few
> more minutes.
> 

The current stuff is pretty crufty. I think your changes are
far better (aside from the minor fact they won't compile!).

Also, switching to a calculation that has seen some real-world
use would be a good idea before we think about turning it on
by default.
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