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

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:21:14PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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.

Right, I forgot it's per cpu.

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