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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 20055] New: 128 byte-alignment cache padding for

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20055

          Issue ID: 20055
           Summary: 128 byte-alignment cache padding for AlignedSpinLock
                    on x86_64?
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: druntime
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: kubo39 gmail.com

Accroding to IntelĀ® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.pdf

 2.3.5.4 Data Prefetching
 Spatial Prefetcher: This prefetcher strives to complete every cache line
fetched to the L2 cache with
 the pair line that completes it to a 128-byte aligned chunk.
Maybe it's better to use 128-byte alignment for core.internal.spinlock.AlignedSpinLock on x86_64? --
Jul 15 2019