Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> How would this interact with or complement __read_mostly? > >> > > Currently, the mechanism we are working on developing is > > independent of __read_mostly. This is something we can look more into > > while working further on the mechanism. > > Please either integrate the two or explain how they differ. > It appears that you haven't considered how you might exploit > or expand the existing mechanism. I think __read_mostly is about grouping stuff together that's rarely going to be read to make the CPU's data cache more efficient. It doesn't stop people writing to such a variable. David
