Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/16] Optimize this_cpu_*() ops for non-x86 (ARM64 for this series)

From: Linus Torvalds

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 12:35:30 EST


On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 at 09:27, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) <cl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We certainly do not want to replicate that approach. We are using the per
> cpu page tables to avoid address calculations in the VM that other
> platforms can do with a segment override.

Right, and I said that that's ok as long as it's a internal
architecture thing. Not a "this is how the VM works".

Because people really have wanted to make it a "this is how the VM
works" thing. And that is very much what I object to.

Linus