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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:01:48 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r197750 - head/sys/vm
Message-ID:  <4ACAF96C.6070204@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4ACA0F09.2010808@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200910041853.n94IrAf7082338@svn.freebsd.org> <4AC9F4F4.4030008@FreeBSD.org> <4ACA0000.2080005@cs.rice.edu> <4ACA0F09.2010808@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Do you care what is in the padding in this case or more about just 
> having each mutex on a separate cache line?  __aligned() is fine if 
> you don't mind the padding getting reused for something else.
>

Yes, I care.  I would also like to prevent the placement of the heads of 
the active, inactive, and hold queues (vm_page_queues[]) in the same 
cache line as the free page queue mutex.

Alan





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