Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] Implement per-processor data areas for i386.

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Mon Aug 28 2006 - 05:06:54 EST


In-Reply-To: <20060827172155.GA21724@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:21:55 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:

> Something like that had to be done eventually about the inefficient
> current_thread_info() mechanism, but I wasn't sure what exactly.

In 2.6.18 it's done in C and the optimizer does a pretty good job
with it in recent compilers.

--
Chuck

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