Re: x86: Convert cpu_core_map to be a per cpu variable
From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jul 13 2007 - 18:41:30 EST
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:34:02 -0700 (PDT)
> But the code modified here is x86_64 and i386 specific? Is there an
> overlap?
I see, the acessor is abstracted via a function.
That seems pointless, and allows you to do things like this, improving
the implementation on one set of platforms yet leave others using
SMT/multi-core scheduling behind.
It makes a lot more sense to make the implementation consistent
and therefore the improvements are seen on every platform.
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