Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:02:27 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/41] percpu: Consistent per cpu operations V1 |
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* Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > * Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote: > > > > > The kernel has never been audited to ensure that this_cpu operations > > > are consistently used throughout the kernel. The code generated in > > > many places can be improved through the use of this_cpu operations > > > (which uses a segment register for relocation of per cpu offsets > > > instead of performing address calculations). > > > > Your series lacks the this_cpu ops preempt debugging patches that you > > worked on before, what happened to them? > > They are included. Please read the complete description. Patches 13 > 14 and 18 implement the preemption checks.
Indeed I missed them. They should probably go first in the series.
Other than that they are looking fine now.
Thanks,
Ingo
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