Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: fix a race on 32bit arches

[Eric Dumazet]

On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 10:03 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> One question though: do we want to lay the structure
> out so that the rx sync structure precedes the rx counters?
> 

I am not sure its worth having holes in the structure, since its percpu
data.

That would be 8 bytes lost per cpu and per device.


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