Message-ID: <4AC7A6FF.8040002@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:33:19 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V4 02/20] this_cpu: X86 optimized this_cpu	operations
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Hi,

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * cl@linux-foundation.org <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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I haven't looked at the series in detail but AFAICT the SLUB patches 
depend on the x86 ones. Any suggestions how to get all this into 
linux-next? Should I make a topic branch in slab.git on top of -tip or 
something?

			Pekka
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