We don't use cacheline_align here because that might waste lot of space on 32bit machine with 64 bytes cachelines and on 64bit machines with 128 bytes cachelines. The size of struct hrtimer_clock_base is 64byte on 64bit and 32byte on 32bit machines. So we utilize the cache lines proper. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/hrtimer.h | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: tip/include/linux/hrtimer.h =================================================================== --- tip.orig/include/linux/hrtimer.h +++ tip/include/linux/hrtimer.h @@ -130,6 +130,12 @@ struct hrtimer_sleeper { struct task_struct *task; }; +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT +# define HRTIMER_CLOCK_BASE_ALIGN 64 +#else +# define HRTIMER_CLOCK_BASE_ALIGN 32 +#endif + /** * struct hrtimer_clock_base - the timer base for a specific clock * @cpu_base: per cpu clock base @@ -147,7 +153,7 @@ struct hrtimer_clock_base { struct timerqueue_head active; ktime_t (*get_time)(void); ktime_t offset; -}; +} __attribute__((__aligned__(HRTIMER_CLOCK_BASE_ALIGN))); enum hrtimer_base_type { HRTIMER_BASE_MONOTONIC, @@ -195,6 +201,8 @@ struct hrtimer_cpu_base { static inline void hrtimer_set_expires(struct hrtimer *timer, ktime_t time) { + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct hrtimer_clock_base) > HRTIMER_CLOCK_BASE_ALIGN); + timer->node.expires = time; timer->_softexpires = time; }