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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: reduce SMP locks table size
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:17:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD8D015.6000703@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On 04/21/2010 08:08 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... by using relative pointers instead of absolute ones, thus cutting
> the table size by half.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

We probably could use something like this for the alternatives and
exceptions tables, too...

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-29  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-21 15:08 [PATCH] x86-64: reduce SMP locks table size Jan Beulich
2010-04-29  0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-04-29  0:55 ` [tip:x86/asm] x86-64: Reduce " tip-bot for Jan Beulich

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