Re: broken local_t on i386

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jun 12 2006 - 13:10:37 EST


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Also on non preemptive kernels - which are the majority - it's a single
> instruction on x86. I guess preempt users can live with a bit more
> overhead ...

I hope you will be fixing the cpu_local_* macros for i386 and x86_64 and
add some appropriate docs? Are there any existing uses in the kernel?

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