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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:25:21 -0700

> Which of course begs the question - what cache line size should be
> ass-u-me-d when blocking these things?  I'll put-forth 128 bytes.

Why guess?  There is no need to.

Use "__read_mostly" which is an attribute designed explicitly for
this.