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    SubjectRe: [patch 00/41] cpu alloc / cpu ops v3: Optimize per cpu access
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    Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> writes:

    > The problem is that offsets relative to %gs or %fs are limited by the
    > small memory model that is chosen.

    Actually they are not. If you really want you can do
    movabs $64bit,%reg ; op ...,%gs:(%reg)
    It's just not very efficient compared to small (or rather kernel) model
    and also older binutils didn't support large model.

    -Andi


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