On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:29:25AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:45:27 +0200
> 
> > Please move kmem_cache_t *bind_bucket_cachep; in a better place, not
> > just after spinlock_t portalloc_lock;
> 
> [ Eric, I haven't had time to respond to this thread because I'm
>   in the UK for UKUUG2005 this week, so email access is sporadic]
> 
> Please use __read_mostly attribute to achieve this.
> 
> The linker can otherwise arrange the data section symbols
> however it likes, and therefore placing it in some specific
> spot in some C file makes no guarentees where it'll end up
> in the final image.
> 
> Section attributes, such as __read_mostly, are the only way to
> make guarentees about symbol placement.

Umm, that's inside a dynamically allocated structure.  __read_mostly
doesn't do anything in that case.

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