Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David Miller wrote:

> IA64 seems to use it universally for every __get_cpu_var()
> access, so maybe it works out somehow :-)))

IA64 does not do that. It addds the local cpu offset

#define __get_cpu_var(var) (*RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu__##var, 
__ia64_per_cpu_var(local_per_cpu_offset)))
#define __raw_get_cpu_var(var) (*RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu__##var, 
__ia64_per_cpu_var(local_per_cpu_offset)))


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