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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:03:47 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas
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Hi!

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:09:35AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
>     The following patch implements convenient per-cpu areas:
>         DECLARE_PER_CPU(int myvar);
> 
> Where or why do we need this?

DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task *current). Same for slab quick-alloc
lists, performance counters,  ...
							Pavel
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