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

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 14:55:37 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
I think we can get away with just simply realloc'ing the percpu area
on each cpu. No fancy table manipulations required. Just update
the base pointer in %gs and in someplace global.

It's perfectly legitimate to take the address of a percpu variable and store it somewhere. We can't move them around.

J
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