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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:40:45 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/14] i386 / Add a per cpu gdt accessor
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* Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@arm.linux.org.uk) wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 zach@vmware.com wrote:
> 
> > Add an accessor function for getting the per-CPU gdt.  Callee must already
> > have the CPU.
> 
> This one seems superfluous to me, does accessing it indirectly generate 
> better code too?

It's prepratory for other work.

thanks,
-chris