Re: [guv v2 04/31] net: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, David Howells wrote:

> Would it be possible to use __thread annotations for per-CPU variables, I
> wonder?

We already have a __percpu annotation. Looked at __thread a couple of
years ago but found that support for the kernel segment register was not
available. If we had __thread then most of the operations could simply be
provided by the compiler.



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