[PATCH] cacheline align rt_cache_stat struct

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 08:28:16 EST

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The per-cpu rt_cache_stat structure should be padded to cacheline
to avoid sharing of cachelines between different CPUs. Here is a patch
to do that for SMP kernels.

Thanks
Dipankar

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Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Project: http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
diff -urN linux-2.4.10/include/net/route.h linux-2.4.10+rt/include/net/route.h
--- linux-2.4.10/include/net/route.h	Thu Sep 27 11:59:45 2001
+++ linux-2.4.10+rt/include/net/route.h	Tue Oct  2 18:34:45 2001
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
         unsigned int out_hit;
         unsigned int out_slow_tot;
         unsigned int out_slow_mc;
-};
+} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 extern struct ip_rt_acct *ip_rt_acct;
 
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