[PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 25 15:14:51 UTC 2006


2006/7/25, Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org>:
> Hi,
> Intel documentation points out that having a 128-bytes aligned
> syncronizing primitive  (which fits in a cache line) will minimize the
> traffic for cache bus, so this patch implements an alignment for i386
> on turnstiles.
>
> Any comments, feedbacks?

Oh, sorry, I've unforgotten the diff.

Attilio


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