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	Podcast:		Take Up Code
	Episode:		99: Multithreading. Cache Lines.
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:09:52
	Publish Date:		2016-05-02 00:42:01
	Description:		If you’re not careful, you can cause a processor to come to an immediate and full stop while it waits for data to move around in memory. That’s probably not the performance boost you were looking for. In order to avoid these delays, you need to be aware of two things and make sure to test your code to fully understand what it’s doing. Cache invalidation can occur when a thread running on one processor modifies a variable being used in the cache of another thread running on another processor. This causes the cache to be moved around as the processors make sure that that data is consistent. It also causes a processor to halt while it waits for the data to be updated. You can also get cache invalidation even when two threads are each working with their own variables if those variables happen to reside in the same cache line. Packing your data together so it observes locality of reference will help avoid this false sharing. You also need to make sure that you don’t divide your data that’s been packed like this between multiple threads.
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