Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:45:08 +0530 | From | pnagar@codeauro ... | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2] selinux: security: Move selinux_state to a separate page |
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On 2021-01-13 16:26, David Howells wrote: > Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote: > >> >> How would this interact with or complement __read_mostly? >> >> >> > Currently, the mechanism we are working on developing is >> > independent of __read_mostly. This is something we can look more into >> > while working further on the mechanism. >> >> Please either integrate the two or explain how they differ. >> It appears that you haven't considered how you might exploit >> or expand the existing mechanism. > > I think __read_mostly is about grouping stuff together that's rarely > going to > be read to make the CPU's data cache more efficient. It doesn't stop > people > writing to such a variable. > > David Thank you for sharing!
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