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[PATCH] mostly_read data section

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Add a new section called ".data.read_mostly" for data items that are read
frequently and rarely written to like cpumaps etc.

If these maps are placed in the .data section then these frequenly read
items may end up in cachelines with data is is frequently updated.  In that
case all processors in an SMP system must needlessly reload the cachelines
again and again containing elements of those frequently used variables.

The ability to share these cachelines will allow each cpu in an SMP system
to keep local copies of those shared cachelines thereby optimizing
performance.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Christoph Lameter
2005-07-07 17:56:59 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0db925af1d
commit 6c036527a6
11 changed files with 31 additions and 18 deletions
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arch/i386/kernel/time.c
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@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rtc_lock);
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(i8253_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(i8253_lock);
struct timer_opts *cur_timer = &timer_none;
struct timer_opts *cur_timer __read_mostly = &timer_none;
/*
* This is a special lock that is owned by the CPU and holds the index