Re: [PATCH 1/2]percpu: introduce read mostly percpu API

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 10/20/2010 12:53 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> My question was more a rethoric one. I understand for sure the intent.
> 
> All this should be explained in changelog, so that people know
> when/where use this new class of per_cpu variables ;)
> 

Changelog really isn't the best place for this, a Documentation file
would be better.

I'm trying to grok the intended semantic of the shared_aligned section
right now... I'm not sure if there is a significant difference between
the read mostly and the shared aligned section?

	-hpa
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