Re: [PATCH][RFC] fixing the irqwcpustat mess

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 06:30, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> >>>>> On 07 May 2003 06:24:54 +0200, Andi Kleen <[e-mail]> said:
> 
>   Andi> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 21:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>   >>  +#ifndef __ARCH_IRQ_STAT irq_cpustat_t irq_stat[NR_CPUS]
>   >> ____cacheline_aligned; +EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_stat); +#endif
> 
>   Andi> Shouldn't this be per_cpu_data ?
> 
> That's what we do on ia64.  Though we actually end up putting it in
> the cpuinfo structure, for historical reasons but also to ensure that
> it's close to some other stuff that's used on the irq path.

x86-64 does the same (putting it into the PDA). Was just commenting
generically for the other ports.

-Andi