Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:37:21 -0800, Richard Henderson <[e-mail]> said:

  Richard> This definitely needs to be per-architecture.  On Alpha, I
  Richard> think I can use the Thread Local Storage model to be added
  Richard> to binutils 2.13 (and potentially compiler support to gcc
  Richard> 3.[23]).  IA-64 may be able to do the same.  It's certain
  Richard> that x86 can't, since the userland model requires %gs:0
  Richard> point to the thread base, and the kernel folk would never
  Richard> cotton to the segment swapping that would be needed.

Actually, on ia64 I want to use a pinned TLB entry to map the per-CPU
area.  This has the advantage that accessing the local version of a
per-CPU variable has zero extra overhead.  We have been doing this for
the cpu_info structure for a while now.

	--david