[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: add module parameter compiler hints

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Jul 7 18:01:23 CEST 2011


On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:37:16 -0700
Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:16:01 -0700, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
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> > I've seen no regressions on Nexuiz.
> 
> 'this doesn't seem to hurt any' is hardly a strong recommendation...

If anything, using __read_mostly appropriately should *increase*
performance, not decrease it.  But I think we'd have to measure real
hard to notice anything at all for this particular set of changes
(though __read_mostly is definitely the right thing to do).

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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