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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:34:44 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:16:25 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So I don't think the ring-buffer change is necessarily _wrong_, but if
> this is a performance issue, why don't we just fix it up for the
> generic case rather than for just one user?

I totally agree with your analysis, but it's up to Christoph to come up
with an answer to your questions.

-- Steve