Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses

[Mike Travis]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
...
> The trouble with reusing the space is that it's going to be things like
> "current" which are the best candidates for going there - but if you do
> that you lose i386 unification (unless you play some tricks where you
> arrange to make the percpu variables land there while still appearing to
> be normal percpu vars).
> 
>    J


One more approach... ;-)  Once the pda and percpu vars are in the same
area, then could the pda be used for both 32 and 64...?
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