From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: travis@sgi.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:18:22 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071227.161822.262276105.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071228001618.687461000@sgi.com>
From: travis@sgi.com
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:16:25 -0800
> Sparc64 has a way of providing the base address for the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor in a global register.
>
> Sparc64 also provides a way to calculate the address of a per cpu area
> from a base address instead of performing an array lookup.
>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-28 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-28 0:16 [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V2 travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 01/10] percpu: Use a kconfig variable to signal arch specific percpu setup travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 02/10] percpu: Move arch XX_PER_CPU_XX definitions into linux/percpu.h travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more "generic" travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86_32: Use generic percpu.h travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 06/10] s390: " travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 07/10] Powerpc: Use generic per cpu travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu travis
2007-12-28 0:18 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 09/10] ia64: " travis
2007-12-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 10/10] x86: Unify percpu.h travis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-08 21:10 [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V4 travis
2008-01-08 21:10 ` [PATCH 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu travis
2008-01-08 2:11 [PATCH 00/10] percpu: Per cpu code simplification V3 travis
2008-01-08 2:11 ` [PATCH 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu travis
2007-11-28 21:09 [patch 00/10] Per cpu code simplification V2 Christoph Lameter
2007-11-28 21:09 ` [patch 08/10] Sparc64: Use generic percpu Christoph Lameter
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