Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:27:02 -0700 | From | "David Mosberger-Tang" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access |
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On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > > Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is > > really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the > > sake of uniformity. > > Uniformity for the sake of code size reduction and easier maintenance.
Code-size reduction? You must be talking *source* code size reduction. Surely the small-data access-method decreases object code size.
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