From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
axboe@kernel.dk, aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: make struct task_struct::state 32-bit
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 17:31:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64003dcd-d954-b76d-856a-214ff11ac000@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903162303.GA2173@avx2>
On 03/09/2019 17:23, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:02:38AM +0100, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> struct task_struct {
>> struct thread_info thread_info; /* 0 24 */
>> volatile int state; /* 24 4 */
>>
>> /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
>>
>> void * stack; /* 32 8 */
>>
>> Though seeing as this is also the boundary of the randomized layout we can't
>> really do much better without changing the boundary itself. So much for
>> cacheline use :/
>
> Cacheline use of task_struct is pretty hopeless because of all the ifdefs.
>
Yeah I figured, then had a minute of silence for those forsaken bytes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-02 21:05 [PATCH] sched: make struct task_struct::state 32-bit Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-02 23:02 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-03 16:23 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-03 16:31 ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2019-09-03 6:51 ` [dm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-03 7:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-03 17:29 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-03 18:19 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-03 21:51 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-04 12:07 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-04 17:48 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-05 15:51 ` Markus Elfring
2019-09-05 16:52 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-23 10:26 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-23 10:34 ` Julia Lawall
2019-09-23 11:26 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-23 11:43 ` Julia Lawall
2019-09-23 13:23 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-24 8:28 ` Markus Elfring
2019-09-24 8:07 ` Markus Elfring
2019-09-04 9:43 ` [PATCH] " David Laight
2019-09-04 10:25 ` Valentin Schneider
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