Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 18:45, Kok, Auke wrote:

quoted

 	/* TX */
-	struct ixgb_desc_ring tx_ring;
+	struct ixgb_desc_ring tx_ring ____cacheline_aligned;
 	unsigned long timeo_start;

On UP, this would only enlarge the size of structure and might consume more 
cache lines...

 I guess ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp is preferred here.

(see include/linux/netdevice.h)

Agreed.

	Jeff