On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:15:56PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > So... once we've moved all read-mostly variables into __read_mostly, what
> > is left behind in bss?
>
> I had already covered that in the next paragraph which you conveniently
> snipped :)
>
> Anyways I suspect the right solution for that would be more classes
> of variables for even better grouping.
>...
Is there any way to tell gcc that it's still allowed to omit the
variable when it's able to prove it's read-only?
My basic fear with all the __read_mostly, immediate values,... stuff is
that it might interfere with gcc optimizations.
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
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