Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759622AbXK0V1Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:27:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754776AbXK0V1P (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:27:15 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.234]:44641 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758288AbXK0V1P (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:27:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=w1NsmIsfJxWMPfb59A90MC78Y+woeq6kfLW3Hbr7F2QFG3eHvhhTJs1C6Os4JQW/kAvVsjveo2S4dF8VZJGZHkDcmk4VaBk4OAJDrObh9YUcZayWtn+rxYnfM4Qc5z3aaQdG6nLfKUfBfeJhzjpQtG5OcDgvmlOT9Rgphe4PK4I= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:27:02 -0700 From: "David Mosberger-Tang" To: "Christoph Lameter" Subject: Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071127001407.859743255@sgi.com> <20071127001430.083503280@sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 19 On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > > > Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is > > really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the > > sake of uniformity. > > Uniformity for the sake of code size reduction and easier maintenance. Code-size reduction? You must be talking *source* code size reduction. Surely the small-data access-method decreases object code size. --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/