Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758459AbYGJVGS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757312AbYGJVGC (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:02 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47144 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754053AbYGJVGB (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:06:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4876799B.7010204@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:05:31 -0500 From: Christoph Lameter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , Mike Travis , Andrew Morton , Jack Steiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses References: <20080709165129.292635000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080709200757.GD14009@elte.hu> <48751B57.8030605@goop.org> <48751CF9.4020901@linux-foundation.org> <4875209D.8010603@goop.org> <48752CCD.30507@linux-foundation.org> <48753C99.5050408@goop.org> <487555A8.2050007@zytor.com> <487556A5.5090907@goop.org> <4876194E.4080205@linux-foundation.org> <48761C06.3020003@zytor.com> <48762A3B.5050104@linux-foundation.org> <48762DD2.5090802@zytor.com> <487637A1.4080403@linux-foundation.org> <487639ED.7000502@zytor.com> <48763CA6.9030802@linux-foundation.org> <487647EF.5010609@goop.org> <48764A01.1070402@linux-foundation.org> <48764C7C.5010309@goop.org> <48767692.4080504@linux-foundation.org> <487677F0.4000404@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <487677F0.4000404@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 20 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Percpu on i386 hasn't been a point of discussion. It works fine, and > has been working fine for a long time. The same mechanism would work > fine on x86-64. Its only "issue" is that it doesn't support the broken > gcc abi for stack-protector. Well that is one thing and then the scaling issues, and the support of the new cpu allocator, new arch independent cpu operations etc. > The problem is all zero-based percpu on x86-64. The zero based stuff will enable a lot of things. Please have a look at the cpu_alloc patchsets. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/