Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:40:46 +0000 (GMT)
> So I would suggest making the size (and thus alignment check) of locks at
> least 8 bytes (and preferably 16). That makes it slightly harder to put
> locks on the stack, but gcc does support stack alignment, even if the code
> sucks right now.
Can we go to cache line alignment - for an array of locks thats clearly
advantageous
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