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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:58:44 +0100
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r230572 - in head/sys/dev: ixgbe netmap
Message-ID:  <20120127125844.GA11690@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <20120127203631.Q1604@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201201260955.q0Q9tG1m075353@svn.freebsd.org> <4F21820B.8040000@rice.edu> <20120127203631.Q1604@besplex.bde.org>

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:45:40PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> >On 01/26/2012 03:55, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> 
> >>Log:
> >>...
> >>   Netmap-related changes for ixgbe:
> >>...
> >>+#define NKR_PENDINTR   0x1     // Pending interrupt.
> >>  	u_int nkr_num_slots;
> >>
> >>  	int	nkr_hwofs;	/* offset between NIC and netmap ring */
> >>  	struct netmap_adapter *na;	 // debugging
> >>  	struct selinfo si; /* poll/select wait queue */
> >>-};
> >>+} __attribute__((__aligned__(64)));
> >
> >The machine-dependent param.h defines CACHE_LINE_SIZE for use in 
> >situations like this.
> 
> Also, the machine-independent cdefs.h defines __aligned() for use
> in situations like this.  All cases that use CACHE_LINE_SIZE in an
> alignment statement spell the alignment statement correctly.  The
> only hard-coded __attribute__() in a line matching CACHE_LINE_SIZE
> is for CVMX_CACHE_LINE_SIZE in contrib/octeon-sdk/cvmx-utils.h.
> Perhaps contrib'ed code needs to use hard-coded gccisms instead of
> hard-coded FreeBSDisms.

thanks for the comments, I'll adjust this in some subsequent commit.

cheers
luigi



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