Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Define early read-mostly per-cpu macros

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 21 2012 - 04:46:31 EST



* Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some read-mostly per-cpu data may need to be declared or defined early,
> so it can be initialized and accessed before per_cpu areas are
> allocated.
>
> Only the data that resides in the per_cpu areas should be read-mostly,
> as there is little benefit in optimizing cache lines on initialization.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@xxxxxxxxxxx>

That's not a valid signoff chain. If you send me a patch then
you should be the last SOB - but as the author you should be the
first SOB as well. I edited the two SOBs to be Acked-by's.

Thanks,

Ingo
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