Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 10:03 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

quoted

One question though: do we want to lay the structure
out so that the rx sync structure precedes the rx counters?

I am not sure its worth having holes in the structure, since its percpu
data.

That would be 8 bytes lost per cpu and per device.

Right, I forgot it's per cpu.