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| author | Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> | 2005-07-07 17:56:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -0700 |
| commit | 6c036527a630720063b67d9a65455e8caca2c8fa (patch) | |
| tree | 316e947f5f4efcda0205e48044ed1d12665eaed1 /arch/i386/kernel/cpu | |
| parent | 0db925af1db5f3dfe1691c35b39496e2baaff9c9 (diff) | |
[PATCH] mostly_read data section
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/cpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c index 96a75d04583..a2c33c1a46c 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ extern int trap_init_f00f_bug(void); /* * Alignment at which movsl is preferred for bulk memory copies. */ -struct movsl_mask movsl_mask; +struct movsl_mask movsl_mask __read_mostly; #endif void __devinit early_intel_workaround(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) |