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    SubjectRe: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses
    Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

    > Percpu on i386 hasn't been a point of discussion. It works fine, and
    > has been working fine for a long time. The same mechanism would work
    > fine on x86-64. Its only "issue" is that it doesn't support the broken
    > gcc abi for stack-protector.

    Well that is one thing and then the scaling issues, and the support of the new cpu allocator, new arch independent cpu operations etc.

    > The problem is all zero-based percpu on x86-64.

    The zero based stuff will enable a lot of things. Please have a look at the cpu_alloc patchsets.





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