Re: [PATCH v17 02/16] preempt: Track NMI nesting to separate per-CPU counter

From: Joel Fernandes

Date: Sat Feb 07 2026 - 17:12:05 EST


On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 08:16:39AM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
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> Yeah, "can't" is a strong word? ;-) I did say if we care more about
> performance on 64bit than 32bit and can afford slowing down 32bit
> preemption disabling in the case where "we decide to have additional
> preempt count flags", THEN we can make all preempt count 64bit.

Ok, hopefully x86 32-bit goes away before we have to maintain/improve
these workarounds in it. :-)

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Joel Fernandes

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