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Steven Rostedt wrote: > would now create a variable called per_cpu_offset__myint in > the .data.percpu_offset section. This variable will point to the (if > defined in the kernel) __per_cpu_offset[] array. If this was a module > variable, it would point to the module per_cpu_offset[] array which is > created when the modules is loaded. If I'm following you correctly, this adds another dependent load to a per-CPU data access, and from memory that isn't node-affine. If so, I think people with SMP and NUMA kernels would care more about performance and scalability than the few k of memory this saves. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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