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

[Paul Jackson]

Ingo wrote:
> it's useful in terms of userspace uniformity.

Yes.  It's an important property of Linux that it
provides a common, portable API for all arch's,
except where the obvious semantics (not performance)
of a call are necessarily arch-specific.

Just coding up system calls for those arch's that
happen to run a particular call super-fast, even
though the call makes logical sense on all arch's,
would lead to API chaos and impede application
portability.

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