From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: current_thread_info() vs task_thread_info(current)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:48:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110718114834.GJ2400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310989490.13765.57.camel@twins>
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 01:44:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:36 +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> > Why not use per cpu kernel_stack variable on all arches as x86_64 does?
> > How big the advantage of using stack pointer to find current thread info is?
>
> One less load I imagine.
Oh, yes of course. But what I mean is that if using kernel_stack is good
enough for most popular architecture (x86_64) may be it is good enough for
other architectures too?
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-18 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 11:23 current_thread_info() vs task_thread_info(current) Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 11:36 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-07-18 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 11:48 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2011-07-18 11:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-18 14:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-07-18 21:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-19 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-07-19 0:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-19 3:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-07-19 3:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
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