> (Using SMP_CACHE_BYTES I guess, though it's not clear to me that
> synchronizing with other CPUs would have the same requirement as
> synchronizing to various devices.) Might be good to stick such
> data at the end of structures, since when they're kmalloced in
> cacheline-aligned chunks, aligning the start of such buffers is
> sufficient to prevent any cacheline sharing.
Does this mean that gcc will _not_ pad the end of such a member
of a structure to ensure that the next one will not share a cache line,
if an ordinary alignment directive is issued ?
Regards
Oliver
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