Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:41:31 -0400 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses |
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Mike Travis wrote: > > I was thinking that supporting virtual percpu addresses would take a fair > amount of code that, if living in a MODULE, wouldn't impact small systems. > But it seems to be not worth the effort... ;-) >
No, and it seems pretty toxic. If we're doing virtual, they should almost certainly always be virtual (except perhaps on UP.) Page size is a separate issue.
-hpa
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