Re: [PATCH] Move some variables into the "most_readonly" section??

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 19:44:36 EST


On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:16:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> christoph <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > > > Yup that makes the whole thing much more sane. Can we specify multiple
> > > > attributes to a variable?
> > > Seems OK?
> >
> > Looks fine. Want a patch against the existing fixes in mm1? So that we
> > have a whatever-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix?
>
> Let's see what it looks like. Two patches please. One againt the core
> (optimise-storage-of-read-mostly-variables*.patch) and one against the
> users (move-some-more-structures-into-mostly_readonly-and-readonly.patch).

I think it would be better to first still see numbers for
this questionable optimizations.

-Andi
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