Re: pre-2.1.132-2..

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 07:02:05 -0800


Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:37:46 +0100 (CET)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>

This patch remove the unused bits. I don' t know what they are used for...
Maybe for alignment, but without them the irq_desc_t struct is just 32*4
bits so it seems just word aligned to me...

Aieee, don't do this! They are cache line sized to decrease bus
traffic on SMP.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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