* Re: optimize __gp location
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@ 2005-01-24 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
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From: Matthew Wilcox @ 2005-01-24 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Keith Owens; +Cc: Christian Hildner, Chen, Kenneth W, linux-ia64, linux-kernel
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:22:16AM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> Unfortunately marking jiffies and similar small but high usage
> variables as section .sbss or .sdata requires changes to common code.
> It might be worth doing, but the change would have to be structured so
> it worked on all architectures.
I think there are other architectures which would prefer
small-and-frequently-used global variables to be placed somewhere special,
so there may well be wide-spread enthusiasm for such an annotation.
CC'ing linux-kernel to see if anyone bites.
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