Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-06-10 10:22:31
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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.