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From: Christoph Lameter on 25 Jun 2010 12:10
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Rusty Russell wrote:

> Even better would be to point to the fixed "one cpu" and "all cpus"
> masks where possible, and make a copy when setting it to something
> else. But you'd have to track down those naughty places which frob it
> directly...

Put it into a read only segment?

What is the estimated performance impact of adding a level of indirection
(and a potential cache miss) to a number of critical code paths?

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