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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