On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:48, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Please revert to static zero initialization of a const: when thus
> initialized it's linked into a readonly cacheline shared between cpus;
> otherwise it's linked into bss, likely to be in a dirty cacheline
> bouncing between cpus.

how about adding a big fat comment here that says this?
Otherwise this keeps happening all the time...