Re: [PATCH 00/41] percpu: Consistent per cpu operations V1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> >
> > * Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The kernel has never been audited to ensure that this_cpu operations
> > > are consistently used throughout the kernel. The code generated in
> > > many places can be improved through the use of this_cpu operations
> > > (which uses a segment register for relocation of per cpu offsets
> > > instead of performing address calculations).
> >
> > Your series lacks the this_cpu ops preempt debugging patches that you
> > worked on before, what happened to them?
> 
> They are included. Please read the complete description. Patches 13 
> 14 and 18 implement the preemption checks.

Indeed I missed them. They should probably go first in the series.

Other than that they are looking fine now.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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