Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:55:18 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu |
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 28 December 2007 01:10:51 travis@sgi.com wrote: > > x86_64 provides an optimized way to determine the local per cpu area > > offset through the pda and determines the base by accessing a remote > > pda. > > And? The rationale for this patch seems to be incomplete. > > As far as I can figure out you're replacing an optimized percpu > implementation which a dumber generic one. Which needs > at least some description why.
The implementation stays the same. The code is just consolidated.
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