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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:03:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207160347.A1404@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16BkER-0006J0-00@wagner> <20011206091836.GA5470@weta.f00f.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011206091836.GA5470@weta.f00f.org>

Hi!

> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:09:35AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
>     The following patch implements convenient per-cpu areas:
>         DECLARE_PER_CPU(int myvar);
> 
> Where or why do we need this?

DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task *current). Same for slab quick-alloc
lists, performance counters,  ...
							Pavel
-- 
"I do not steal MS software. It is not worth it."
                                -- Pavel Kankovsky

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-07 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05 22:09 [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas Rusty Russell
2001-12-06  7:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-06  8:07   ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06  9:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-07 15:03   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
     [not found] <15504.7958.677592.908691@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2002-03-14  4:37 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14  5:05   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 11:14     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 11:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 12:16         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 12:25           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-15  1:00         ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-14  9:37   ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-14 18:06     ` David Mosberger
     [not found] <15504.7958.677592.908691@napali.hpl.hp.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <E16lMzi-0002bb-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-14  8:39   ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-14 11:09     ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 11:14       ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-14 19:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 18:04     ` David Mosberger
2002-03-14 18:51       ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-15  4:07         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15  4:19           ` David Mosberger
2002-03-15  5:52             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15  9:13           ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-17  7:17             ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-18  7:35               ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-19  0:02                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-19  0:08                   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-03-19  0:15                   ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-19 17:05                     ` Richard Henderson

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