Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:47:24 -0500 | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: >> H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> No, since the *addresses* can be arbitrary. The current issue is about >>> *offsets.* >> >> Well those are intimately connected. > > Not really, since gs_base is an arbitrary 64-bit pointer.
The current scheme ties the offsets to kernel code addresses.
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