[ET Trac] #2832: possible race condition in LoopControl

#2832: possible race condition in LoopControl

Reporter: Roland Haas Status: new Milestone: Version: Type: bug Priority: major Component:

Comment (by Erik Schnetter):

As you say, your padding doesn’t actually align the struct. The struct may thus be split across two cache lines. Since some architectures have 128-byte cache lines, you should instead pad to 2*128 bytes. (Intel CPUs have 64-byte cache lines and thus 128 bytes suffice there.)

You can instead also check the alignment (see [https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/%5C_Alignof%5D(https://en.cpprefere...) with a static assertion.

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