[PATCH] Mantaining turnstile aligned to 128 bytes in i386 CPUs

[Attilio Rao]

2007/1/16, John Polstra <jdp at polstra.com>:
> On 16-Jan-2007 John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:51, Attilio Rao wrote:
> >> The patch:
> >> http://users.gufi.org/~rookie/works/patches/ts-sq/ts-sq.diff
> >
> > Looks good.  Some minor nits are that in subr_turnstile.c in the comment I
> > would say "a turnstile is allocated" rather than "a turnstile is got from a
> > specific UMA zone" as it reads a little bit clearer.  Also, I would
> > say "Allocate a" rather than "Get a" for the two _alloc() functions.  Also,
> > why not just use UMA_ALIGN_CACHE and make UMA_ALIGN_CACHE (128 - 1) on i386
> > and amd64 rather than adding a new UMA_ALIGN_SYNC?
>
> Also, instead of calling bzero in the _init functions, I think you
> could pass UMA_ZONE_ZINIT to uma_zcreate.

Since it doesn't seem to be documented, it automatically zeros all the
initializations or just the first one?

Attilio


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