x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too
Locked instructions on two cache lines at once are painful. If atomic64_t uses two cache lines, my test program is 10x slower. The chance for that is significant: 4/32 or 12.5%. Make sure an atomic64_t is 8 bytes aligned. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain> [ changed it to __aligned(8) as per Andrew's suggestion ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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