Hi,
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Robert Watson <rwat...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, K. Macy wrote:
>
>>> Why are you making an MD guess, the amount of padding to fit the size of
>>> a cache line, in MI API ? Strangely enough, you did not make this assumption
>>> in, say r205488 (picked randomly).
>>
>> It has been several years, and I haven't done any work in svn in over a
>> year, I don't remember. I probably meant to refine it in a later iteration.
>>
>> If you would like to send me a patch addressing this I'd be more than
>> happy to apply it if appropriate. Otherwise, I will deal with it some time
>> after 9 settles.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> I'm not sure if gcc (and friends) allow __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE) to be
> used on individual elements of a struct (causing appropriate padding to be
> added), but that may be one option here.
>
It definitively does, it is used in several structure in the tree.
Attached a patch to convert buf_ring(9), however, I'm not a huge fan
of dedicating a full cache line to the lock pointer.
- Arnaud
> Of course, that introduces a
> further alignment requirement on the struct itself, so a moderate amount of
> care would need to be used.
>
> Robert
>
diff --git a/sys/sys/buf_ring.h b/sys/sys/buf_ring.h
index 57e42e5..01f399e 100644
--- a/sys/sys/buf_ring.h
+++ b/sys/sys/buf_ring.h
@@ -49,25 +49,17 @@ struct buf_ring {
uint64_t br_drops;
uint64_t br_prod_bufs;
uint64_t br_prod_bytes;
- /*
- * Pad out to next L2 cache line
- */
- uint64_t _pad0[11];
- volatile uint32_t br_cons_head;
+ volatile uint32_t br_cons_head __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
volatile uint32_t br_cons_tail;
int br_cons_size;
int br_cons_mask;
- /*
- * Pad out to next L2 cache line
- */
- uint64_t _pad1[14];
#ifdef DEBUG_BUFRING
- struct mtx *br_lock;
+ struct mtx *br_lock __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
#endif
- void *br_ring[0];
-};
+ void *br_ring[0] __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
+} __aligned(CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
/*
* multi-producer safe lock-free ring buffer enqueue
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