Re: [PATCH] Move some variables into the "most_readonly" section??

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:54:24PM -0700, christoph wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > However this means __cacheline_aligned_mostly_readonly doesnt make much
> > sense since there is no need for alignment in read only. How about
> > replacing it with a __mostly_readonly that doesnt align and remove
> > __cacheline_aligned_mostly_readonly? 
> 
> Hmm. No. The bigger cpu maps may benefit from cacheline alignment for 
> even for read access. 

Why? Can you please explain that. It doesn't make sense to me.

Any read only cache line should be freely shareable over all caches.

Thanks.

-Andi
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