cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_thread.c

[Scott Long]

John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb         2007-03-27 16:51:34 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             init_main.c kern_thread.c 
>   Log:
>   Align 'struct thread' on 16 byte boundaries so that the lower 4 bits are
>   always 0.  Previously we aligned threads on a minimum of 8-byte boundaries.
>   
>   Note: This changes the uma zone to no longer cache align threads.  We
>   really want the uma zone to do align threads to MAX(16, cache line size)
>   but there currently isn't a good way to express that to uma.
>   

I'm sure there is a good reason for this.  Can you explain?

Scott