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From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, clameter@engr.sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove __read_mostly?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:52:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626195220.GA4323@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626121124.45ecc5f2.pj@sgi.com>

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> 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.

Yes I was using it loosely.  I also mentioned ~100% read which is probably
more accurate :).  It is indeed "read hot write cold".  Writes on these
variables are typically during bootup/subsystem initialization/hot plug
events.

Thanks,
Kiran

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 19:50 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
2006-06-26 19:52         ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
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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