Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 03:07:04 EST


   From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
   Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:21:25 +1100
   
   Did you look at PERCPU_ADDR in ia64? Much (all?) of the per cpu data
   is in struct cpuinfo_ia64 which is at the same virtual address on all
   cpus but with different physical addresses on each cpu. Let the mmu do
   the work.

What an absolutely aweful waste of a TLB entry.
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