Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: remove __read_mostly? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:44:49 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm thinking we should remove __read_mostly. > > Because if we use this everywhere where it's supposed to be used, we end up > with .bss and .data 100% populated with write-often variables, packed > closely together. The cachelines will really flying around.
one thing we could/should do is have a "written during boot only" section; which we then can mark read only as well :)
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