Locked instructions on two cache lines at once are painful. If
atomic64_t uses two cache lines, my test program is 10x slower.
The chance for that is significant: 4/32 or 12.5%.
Make sure an atomic64_t is 8 bytes aligned.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
[ changed it to __aligned(8) as per Andrew's suggestion ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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