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Improving ticket spinlocks

Improving ticket spinlocks

Posted Jan 10, 2013 19:54 UTC (Thu) by quanstro (guest, #77996)
Parent article: Improving ticket spinlocks

i believe the common cache line sizes are 64-bytes for most x86
machines, and 32-bytes for arms.


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Improving ticket spinlocks

Posted Jan 21, 2013 21:00 UTC (Mon) by vcunat (guest, #88938) [Link]

Yes, exactly my point. I read on Wiki that P4 had L2 with 128-byte lines, but I thought 64B is the most common. One can check individually around /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index0/coherency_line_size

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