Re: New information on the CIPE problem (compiler conflicts)

From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 14:30:34 EST


Hello!

> Packing doesn't look right to me, as misaligning the array and the
> lock (for SMP) is performance-unfriendly. Reordering could help, like
> this:

This helps only to hide the bug, it will jump out in another place.
Please, _note_ that difference in rwlock_t is even not an alignment problem.

I am sorry, gentlemen, but you have to compile all the kernel
with uniform options and with one flavor of compiler, if this choice
really introduces difference in structures: that's right fix.

Alexey

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