From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: kiran@scalex86.org, akpm@osdl.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove __read_mostly?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:11:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626121124.45ecc5f2.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606261142560.32190@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph wrote:
> 99:1 may be too small a ratio.
Could well be. I was just quoting Ravikiran's number. I suspect he
was using the number loosely, not as a precise value.
> A read_mostly marked variable should be changed rarely (meaning is
> is extremely unlikely that his is going to change) but read frequently.
Yes - well said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-25 18:57 remove __read_mostly? Andrew Morton
2006-06-25 21:19 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-06-26 18:39 ` Paul Jackson
2006-06-26 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-26 19:11 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2006-06-26 19:52 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-06-25 21:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 4:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-25 21:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 4:17 ` Christoph Lameter
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