linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: collapse the various size-dependent percpu accessors together

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806101021350.17093@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: collapse the various size-dependent percpu accessors
 together

> I tried a version to do 64-bit accesses with an explicit "movq" to solve the
> "movll" problem, but it generates "movs" on occasion and that was the point I
> gave up.

Shucks. Would have been a great approach.

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