linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses v3

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Message-Id: <20080219203226.746641000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:32:26 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses v3


This is the generic (non-x86) changes for zero-based per cpu variables.

This patchset provides the following:

  * Init: Move setup of nr_cpu_ids to as early as possible for usage
    by early boot functions.

  * Generic: Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero

    This provides for the capability of accessing the percpu variables
    using a local register instead of having to go through a table
    on node 0 to find this cpu specific offsets.  It also would allow
    atomic operations on percpu variables to reduce required locking.

  * Introduces a new DEFINE_PER_CPU_FIRST to locate a percpu variable
    (cpu_pda in this case) at the beginning of the percpu .data section.

Based on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
---
v3: * split generic/x86-specific into two patches

v2: * rebased and retested using linux-2.6.git
    * fixed errors reported by checkpatch.pl

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