linux-kernel - Re: [rfc 44/45] Remove local

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711201246500.26745@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:48:26 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
cc:	ak@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, travis@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc 44/45] Remove local_t support

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> The question that arises is : are there some architectures that do not
> provide fast PER_CPU ops but provides fast local atomic ops ?

There were only a few no critical users of local_t before this patch. So I 
doubt that it matters.
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