Re: [patch 0/4] Series to allow a "const" file_operations struct

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 16:54:25 EST


On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 22:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this series allows drivers to have "const" file_operations, by making
> the f_ops field in the inode const. This has another benefit, there have

ok there was a sentence missing here. The first benefit is that this
moves these hot datastructures to the rodata section, which means they
won't accidentally be doing false cacheline sharing.


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