Re: RFC: remove __read_mostly

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Dec 17 2007 - 07:15:37 EST


> So... once we've moved all read-mostly variables into __read_mostly, what
> is left behind in bss?

I had already covered that in the next paragraph which you conveniently
snipped :)

Anyways I suspect the right solution for that would be more classes
of variables for even better grouping.

And for really often writen variables cache line padding is probably a good
idea.

-Andi
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