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Re: [patch02/05]: Containers(V2)- Generic Linux kernel changes [message #6662 is a reply to message #6657] Thu, 21 September 2006 00:53 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Rohit Seth is currently offline  Rohit Seth
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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:41 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Rohit Seth wrote:
>
> > ...my preference is to leave it in page struct...that has non-zero cost.
>
> Oh. Making struct page bigger than a cacheline or not fitting exactly in a
> cacheline has some costs.
>

Isn't most of the architectures not defining WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL and thus
the page structure on these is not fitting cache line well. In most of
these cases the additional pointer will actually make the structure 64
bytes on 64-bit machines.

-rohit
 
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