Re: remove __read_mostly?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 11:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm thinking we should remove __read_mostly.
> 
> Because if we use this everywhere where it's supposed to be used, we end up
> with .bss and .data 100% populated with write-often variables, packed
> closely together.  The cachelines will really flying around.


one thing we could/should do is have a "written during boot only"
section; which we then can mark read only as well :)


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