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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:44:51 -0400
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> the problem is, we cannot just put it even into tip/master if there's no 
> short-term hope of fixing a problem it triggers. gcc-4.2.3 is solid for 
> me otherwise, for series of thousands of randomly built kernels.
> 

4.2.3 is fine; he was using 4.2.0 before, and as far as I know, 4.2.0 
and 4.2.1 are known broken for the kernel.

	-hpa

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