Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932751AbVLHXo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:44:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932750AbVLHXo6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:44:58 -0500 Received: from fmr22.intel.com ([143.183.121.14]:52130 "EHLO scsfmr002.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932751AbVLHXo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2005 18:44:57 -0500 Subject: Re: [discuss] [patch] x86_64: align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary From: Rohit Seth To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, zach@vmware.com, shai@scalex86.org, nippung@calsoftinc.com In-Reply-To: <1134085511.7131.53.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> References: <20051208215514.GE3776@localhost.localdomain> <1134083357.7131.21.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <20051208231141.GX11190@wotan.suse.de> <1134084367.7131.32.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> <20051208232610.GY11190@wotan.suse.de> <1134085511.7131.53.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:50:43 -0800 Message-Id: <1134085843.7131.55.camel@akash.sc.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Dec 2005 23:43:48.0961 (UTC) FILETIME=[3CA03510:01C5FC51] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 483 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 15:45 -0800, Rohit Seth wrote: > > > Agreed. > > Though do we need to have full page allocated for each gdt (256 bytes) > then? ...possibly use kmalloc. > sorry, forgot about the false sharing part. -rohit - 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/