Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:44:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > > AFAICT, we could save the wasted partial page in three ways: by trying > to link it first, if it's only a case of one file, by having a special > page-aligned percpu data section, or by having a smarter linker. >
We already do the second of those for conventional data, so it would make sense for percpu as well. Smarter linker would be better, but ugh, I don't see that happening any time soon.
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