From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756796Ab0D2ARj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:17:39 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55430 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754666Ab0D2ARi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:17:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD8D015.6000703@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:17:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: reduce SMP locks table size References: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 We probably could use something like this for the alternatives and exceptions tables, too... -hpa