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authorChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>2005-07-07 17:56:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-07 18:23:46 -0700
commit6c036527a630720063b67d9a65455e8caca2c8fa (patch)
tree316e947f5f4efcda0205e48044ed1d12665eaed1 /arch/i386/kernel/timers
parent0db925af1db5f3dfe1691c35b39496e2baaff9c9 (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/timers')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
index d766e0963ac..ef8dac5dd33 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
#include "mach_timer.h"
#include <asm/hpet.h>
-static unsigned long hpet_usec_quotient; /* convert hpet clks to usec */
+static unsigned long __read_mostly hpet_usec_quotient; /* convert hpet clks to usec */
static unsigned long tsc_hpet_quotient; /* convert tsc to hpet clks */
static unsigned long hpet_last; /* hpet counter value at last tick*/
static unsigned long last_tsc_low; /* lsb 32 bits of Time Stamp Counter */
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int __init init_hpet(char* override)
/************************************************************/
/* tsc timer_opts struct */
-static struct timer_opts timer_hpet = {
+static struct timer_opts timer_hpet __read_mostly = {
.name = "hpet",
.mark_offset = mark_offset_hpet,
.get_offset = get_offset_hpet,