Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:04:36 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC GIT PULL] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix |
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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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