Re: [rfc][patch] store-free path walking

[Andi Kleen]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Sad. But we do have the added requirement that we want to keep the 
> commonly used fields together in the same cacheline, so maybe it's 
> unavoidable.

With some strategic prefetches it might be cheap enough to use 
two cache lines. Just fetch it with the other.

-Andi
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