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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:18:42 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V4 02/20] this_cpu: X86 optimized this_cpu operations
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cl@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> Basically the existing percpu ops can be used for this_cpu variants that allow
> operations also on dynamically allocated percpu data. However, we do not pass a
> reference to a percpu variable in. Instead a dynamically or statically
> allocated percpu variable is provided.
> 
> Preempt, the non preempt and the irqsafe operations generate the same code.
> It will always be possible to have the requires per cpu atomicness in a single
> RMW instruction with segment override on x86.
> 
> 64 bit this_cpu operations are not supported on 32 bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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