| Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:54:59 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I think we can get away with just simply realloc'ing the percpu area > on each cpu. No fancy table manipulations required. Just update > the base pointer in %gs and in someplace global. >
It's perfectly legitimate to take the address of a percpu variable and store it somewhere. We can't move them around.
J
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