From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:55:18 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu In-Reply-To: <200712281354.52453.ak@suse.de> Message-ID: References: <20071228001046.854702000@sgi.com> <20071228001047.556634000@sgi.com> <200712281354.52453.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andi Kleen Cc: travis@sgi.com, Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org