From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261450AbVFOAl5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:41:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261449AbVFOAl5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:41:57 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37006 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261450AbVFOAly (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:41:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:41:53 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Andrew Morton Cc: christoph , ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move some variables into the "most_readonly" section?? Message-ID: <20050615004153.GX11898@wotan.suse.de> References: <20050608131839.GP23831@wotan.suse.de> <20050614162354.6aabe57e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050614165818.6f83fa6c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050614171602.12bfa245.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050614171602.12bfa245.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:16:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > christoph 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