Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:13:35 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote: > > > All I can do now is bisect and then try to figure out what about the > > guilty change might cause the problem. > > Reverting the 7th patch should avoid using the sparc register that caches > the per cpu area offset? (I though so, does it?)
Yes, that's right, %g5 holds the local cpu's per-cpu offset. - 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/
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