From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, arnd@arndb.de, keescook@chromium.org,
luto@amacapital.net, longman@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
willy@infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: expland documentation over __read_mostly
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 07:54:15 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1805080753590.1849@nuc-kabylake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180507231506.4891-1-mcgrof@kernel.org>
On Mon, 7 May 2018, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> __read_mostly can easily be misused by folks, its not meant for
> just read-only data. There are performance reasons for using it, but
> we also don't provide any guidance about its use. Provide a bit more
> guidance over it use.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 23:15 [PATCH] mm: expland documentation over __read_mostly Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-08 0:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-05-08 3:23 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-08 8:28 ` David Howells
2018-05-08 11:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-05-08 15:39 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-05-08 18:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2018-05-08 12:54 ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2020-05-06 23:13 Luis Chamberlain
2020-05-06 23:36 ` Rafael Aquini
2020-05-06 23:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
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