Re: [RFC, patch] i386: vgetcpu(), take 2

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jun 28 2006 - 04:56:41 EST


On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:44, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > but my gut feeling is that we should add a proper sys_get_cpu() syscall
>
> Yes - this should be for more or less all arch's.

The whole point of the original implementation is to do a fast architecture specific call.
A slow generic call isn't very useful.

-Andi

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