Re: [patch 5/7] x86_64: Support for cpu ops

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > hm, what happened to the rebase-PDA-to-percpu-area optimization 
> > patches you guys were working on? I remember there was some 
> > binutils flakiness - weird crashes and things like that. Did you 
> > ever manage to stabilize it? It would be sad if only 32-bit could 
> > take advantage of the optimized ops.
> 
> I thought that was in your tree? I saw a conflict in -next with the 
> zero based stuff a couple of weeks ago. Mike is working on that 
> AFAICT.

No, what's in tip/core/percpu is not the PDA patches:

 f8d90d9: percpu: zero based percpu build error on s390
 cfcfdff: Merge branch 'linus' into core/percpu
 d379497: Zero based percpu: infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero
 b3a0cb4: x86: extend percpu ops to 64 bit

But it's not actually utilized on x86. AFAICS you guys never came back 
with working patches for that (tip/x86/percpu is empty currently), and 
now i see something related on lkml on a separate track not Cc:-ed to 
the x86 folks so i thought i'd ask whether more coordination is 
desired here.

So ... what's the merge plan here? I like your fundamental idea, it's 
a nice improvement in a couple of areas and i'd like to help out make 
it happen. Also, the new per-cpu allocator would be nice for the 
sparseirq code.

	Ingo
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