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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: remove __read_mostly
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:29:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73bq8ugrez.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213222044.GH21616@stusta.de> (Adrian Bunk's message of "Thu\, 13 Dec 2007 23\:20\:44 +0100")

Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> writes:
>
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 bunk bunk 46607243 2007-12-13 19:50 vmlinux.old
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 bunk bunk 46598691 2007-12-13 21:55 vmlinux

File sizes are useless -- check size output.

> It's not a surprise that the kernel can become bigger when __read_mostly 
> gets used, especially in cases where __read_mostly prevents gcc 
> optimizations.

What optimizations do you think it prevents?  I don't think it 
should change the gcc generated code at all; the only difference
should be to the linker.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-13 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 22:20 RFC: remove __read_mostly Adrian Bunk
2007-12-13 22:29 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-12-13 22:41   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-14 16:16     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-12-14 16:31       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-13 22:32 ` David Miller
2007-12-13 22:44   ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-13 23:06     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-13 22:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-13 23:00   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-13 23:54 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-12-14  0:33   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-17 10:33     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-17 10:53       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-17 11:07         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-17 12:19           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-17 12:15       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-17 12:40         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-14 15:24 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-14 15:38   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-14 15:42     ` Matt Mackall

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