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Message-ID: <47424435.8050704@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:19:33 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: clameter@....com, ak@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
travis@....com, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc 37/45] x86_64: Support for fast per cpu operations
David Miller wrote:
>> There was, at some point, discussion about using the gcc TLS mechanism,
>> which should permit even better code to be generated. Unfortunately, it
>> would require gcc to be able to reference %gs instead of %fs (and vice
>> versa for i386), which I don't think is available in anything except
>> maybe the most cutting-edge version of gcc.
>
> You can't use __thread because GCC will cache __thread computed
> addresses across context switches and cpu changes.
>
> It's been tried before on powerpc, it doesn't work.
OK, that pretty much answers that question.
-hpa
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