Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 17:44:07 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

If you're going to do another linker pass, you could have a script to extract all the percpu symbols and generate a set of derived zero-based ones and then link against that.

Or generate a vmlinux with relocations and "relocate" all the percpu symbols down to 0.


Yeah, I'd hate to have to go to either of those lengths though.

-hpa
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