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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" <shai@scalex86.org>,
	Alok Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Additions to .data.read_mostly section
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:38:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430CF6CA.8040302@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050824214610.GA3675@localhost.localdomain>

Ravikiran G Thirumalai a écrit :
> Following patch moves a few static 'read mostly' variables to the 
> .data.read_mostly section.  Typically these are vector - irq tables,
> boot_cpu_data, node_maps etc., which are initialized once and read from 
> often and rarely written to.  Please include.
> 

Good candidates for read_mostly are all the 'kmem_cache_t *xxx_cache'

slab was carefuly designed to eliminate cache line ping pongs on SMP, but if 
the initial pointer to slab sits in a heavily modified cache line, we loose.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24 21:46 [patch] Additions to .data.read_mostly section Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-08-24 22:38 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2005-08-25  7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  8:45   ` [PATCH] removes filp_count_lock and changes nr_files type to atomic_t Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  9:20       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-25  9:08     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25  9:17       ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25  9:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25 10:41           ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 11:11             ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 12:26               ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 14:51                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 14:56                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-25 15:13                   ` Eric Dumazet
2005-08-25 18:19                     ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-08-25 18:36                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26  1:16                     ` Nick Piggin

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