On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:37:25PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:43:56PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > Hm.. I think with static_key we can avoid cache overhead here. I'll try. > > > > Could you elaborate on the static_key? Is it some sort of self > > modifying code? > > Runtime code patching. See Documentation/static-keys.txt. We can patch it > on sysctl.
I guessed it had to be patching the code, thanks for the pointer. It looks a perfect fit for this one agreed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
