On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 12:19:24PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> On 8/3/05, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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  ; 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.
> 
> No, as of now it is on a static structure, in the same way tcp_hashifo has 
> been
> sitting in  ./net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c for aeons 8)

okay, sorry for the confusion, I should have looked at it more closely.
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