On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 20:17 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
> > +
> > +int schedstats_sysctl = 0; /* schedstats turned off by default */
>
> Should be read mostly.
>
> > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, schedstats) = 0;
> > +
>
> When the above is in the read mostly section, you won't need this at all.
>
> You don't intend to switch the sysctl with great frequency, do you?
No, it is not expected to switch often.
We originally coded it as __read_mostly, but thought the variable
bouncing between CPUs would be costly. Is it cheaper with
__read_mostly ? or it doesn't matter ?
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