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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 17:18:46 EST


Christoph Lameter wrote:
H. Peter Anvin wrote:

And how much is that, especially on *small* systems?

i386?

i386 uses 4K mappings. There are just a few cpus supported, there is scarcity of ZONE_NORMAL memory so the per cpu areas really cannot get that big. See the cpu_alloc patchsets for i386.


No, not i386. x86-64.

-hpa
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