__read_only in the kernel

[Ed Schouten]

Hi Mateusz,

2016-11-27 22:25 GMT+01:00 Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik at gmail.com>:
> The somewhat standard way of combating parts of it for frequently read
> and rarely (if ever) modified variables is an annotation which puts
> them in a dedicated part of the binary and the somewhat standard name
> for a macro doing the work is __read_mostly.

Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of doing this?

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Ed Schouten <ed at nuxi.nl>
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