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Date:      Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:30:28 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197750 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <4AC9F4F4.4030008@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200910041853.n94IrAf7082338@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200910041853.n94IrAf7082338@svn.freebsd.org>

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Alan Cox wrote:
> Author: alc
> Date: Sun Oct  4 18:53:10 2009
> New Revision: 197750
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197750
> 
> Log:
>   Align and pad the page queue and free page queue locks so that the linker
>   can't possibly place them together within the same cache line.
>   
>   MFC after:	3 weeks
> 
> Modified:
>   head/sys/vm/vm_page.c
>   head/sys/vm/vm_page.h
> 
> Modified: head/sys/vm/vm_page.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/sys/vm/vm_page.c	Sun Oct  4 17:22:51 2009	(r197749)
> +++ head/sys/vm/vm_page.c	Sun Oct  4 18:53:10 2009	(r197750)
> @@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
>   */
>  
>  struct vpgqueues vm_page_queues[PQ_COUNT];
> -struct mtx vm_page_queue_mtx;
> -struct mtx vm_page_queue_free_mtx;
> +struct vpglocks vm_page_queue_lock;
> +struct vpglocks vm_page_queue_free_lock;

I think you can do this by just:

struct mtx vm_page_queue_mtx __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);

without the need for a wrapper structure.

-- 
John Baldwin



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