Re: [PATCH 00/41] percpu: Consistent per cpu operations V1

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The kernel has never been audited to ensure that this_cpu operations 
> are consistently used throughout the kernel. The code generated in 
> many places can be improved through the use of this_cpu operations 
> (which uses a segment register for relocation of per cpu offsets 
> instead of performing address calculations).

Your series lacks the this_cpu ops preempt debugging patches that you 
worked on before, what happened to them?

Those debug facilities caught kernel real bugs and they are thus 
essential before any percpu extension can be done.

Thanks,

	Ingo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/