From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:57 +0000 (-0700) Subject: time: SMP friendly alignment of struct clocksource X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~703 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=329c8d84ca1946c037d9859dc251b56d8b1b4630;p=pandora-kernel.git time: SMP friendly alignment of struct clocksource struct clocksource is a critical data structure. Most of its fields are read only, some of them are heavily modified at each timer interrupt. It makes sense to separate those fields and make sure they all share one cache line, or at least the minimum for machines with small cache lines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed