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SubjectRe: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:52:07AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So if that holds, we have a solid way to do per-cpu. On one side, I tend
> to think that r13 being task/thread/thread_info is probably a better
> overall choice, I'm worried that going in a different direction than x86
> means generic code will get "tuned" to use per-cpu for performance
> critical stuff rather than task/thread/thread_info in inflexible ways.

The plus side of per-cpu over per-task is that one typically has a lot
less cpus than tasks. Also, its far easier/cheaper to iterate cpus than
it is to iterate tasks.


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