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From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add memcpy_cachebypass, a copy routine that tries to keep cache pressure down
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:05:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152655509.16499.49.camel@chalcedony.pathscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711.145751.77136364.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:57 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> I didn't realize there was change afoot in this area, sorry.
> I was just striving for consistency with current practice.

Sure.

> When the kernel is linked, lib.a implementations only get brought in
> if they are not already resolved by definitions present in the other
> objects of the kernel image.

Well, exactly this scheme seems to work for __iowrite_copy*.  There's a
weak generic version and a strong version in arch/x86_64/lib that
overrides it, and it gets picked up at kernel link time.

It could be working by accident, I suppose, but it's at least consistent
behaviour with what I'm used to from weak symbols.

	<b


  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-11 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-11 20:50 [PATCH] Add memcpy_cachebypass, a copy routine that tries to keep cache pressure down Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-07-11 20:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-11 20:57 ` David Miller
2006-07-11 21:30   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-07-11 21:57     ` David Miller
2006-07-11 22:05       ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2006-07-11 22:08         ` David Miller
2006-07-12  8:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-11 21:09 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-11 21:35   ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-07-11 22:48     ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-12 16:15 ` Andi Kleen

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