On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:46:02AM +0300, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote: > >diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h > >index de656ac..1ae9a5c 100644 > >--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h > >+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h > >@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ > > > > DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies) > > DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode) > >+DECLARE_VVAR(64, volatile unsigned long, fence_wdog_jiffies64) > > DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) > > > > #undef DECLARE_VVAR > > I couldn't find reason why here are such big offsets between variables in > commit messages, so I asked Andy Lutomirski, who introduced vvar.h, and he > said that there is no good reason now, and he put variables like this to > keep them cacheline-aligned and to avoid worrying about space - "there's 4k > of space, so keeping everything compact serves no purpose."
Ok, thanks. > > -- > Best regards, Tikhomirov Pavel > Software Developer, Odin. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
