From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Turn part of SNMP accounting macros into functions Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:57:37 -0500 Message-ID: <48B7F241.30201@linux-foundation.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38415 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934AbYH2M7U (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Herbert Xu wrote: > What happened to Christoph Lameter's new per-cpu stuff? That would > allows us to turn these into a single inc/add instruction. > > So I think we should put this patch on the back-burner until the > status of the per-cpu stuff is settled. Well the zero based patchset is still not in for x86_64. The percpu stuff would only work for x86_32. 32 bit uses the available segment register for per cpu stuff. 64 bit wastes it on the pda. Maybe its okay if itll just work for 32bit and it would put pressure on x86_64 to get the crap fixed up?