Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 2 authors, 2009-09-15

RE: [PATCH 29/29] ioat2, 3: cacheline align software descriptor allocations

From: Sosnowski, Maciej <hidden>
Date: 2009-09-14 15:02:44
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Williams, Dan J wrote:
All the necessary fields for handling an ioat2,3 ring entry can fit into
one cacheline.  Move ->len prior to ->txd in struct ioat_ring_ent, and
move allocation of these entries to a hw-cache-aligned kmem cache to
reduce the number of cachelines dirtied for descriptor management.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <redacted>
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Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <redacted>
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