[dpdk-stable] patch 'examples/exception_path: align stats on cache line' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

[Luca Boccassi]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.5

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/17/18. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From 908fe358e3dee537d7883776ea740f409d548a46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dustin Lundquist <dustin at null-ptr.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:58:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] examples/exception_path: align stats on cache line

[ upstream commit ec94968ed4c53d7fa16a49b7243ece10b93ab8ba ]

Align stats structure to cache line to prevent bouncing per CPU stats
structure between cache lines.

Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")

Signed-off-by: Dustin Lundquist <dustin at null-ptr.net>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>
---
 examples/exception_path/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/exception_path/main.c b/examples/exception_path/main.c
index 89bf1cc06..331d2f484 100644
--- a/examples/exception_path/main.c
+++ b/examples/exception_path/main.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ struct stats {
 	uint64_t rx;
 	uint64_t tx;
 	uint64_t dropped;
-};
+} __rte_cache_aligned;
 
 /* Array of lcore-specific stats */
 static struct stats lcore_stats[RTE_MAX_LCORE];
-- 
2.14.2