Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:15:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V4 00/20] Introduce per cpu atomic operations and
 avoid per cpu address arithmetic
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> One final step/cleanup seems to be missing from it: it should replace
> current uses of percpu_op() [percpu_read(), etc.] in the x86 tree and
> elsewhere with the new this_cpu_*() primitives. this_cpu_*() is using
> per_cpu_from_op/per_cpu_to_op directly, we dont need those percpu_op()
> variants anymore.

Well after things settle with this_cpu_xx we can drop those.

> There should also be a kernel image size comparison done for that step,
> to make sure all the new primitives are optimized to the max on the
> instruction level.

Right. There will be a time period in which other arches will need to add
support for this_cpu_xx first.


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