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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC, patch] i386: vgetcpu(), take 2
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:53:15 +0200
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On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:44, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > but my gut feeling is that we should add a proper sys_get_cpu() syscall 
> 
> Yes - this should be for more or less all arch's.

The whole point of the original implementation is to do a fast architecture specific call.
A slow generic call isn't very useful.

-Andi