linux-kernel - Re: [guv v2 04/31] net: Replace __get_cpu

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Message-ID: <7928.1378240768@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 03 Sep 2013 21:39:28 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, cl@...ux.com, tj@...nel.org,
	akpm@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, srostedt@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [guv v2 04/31] net: Replace __get_cpu_var uses

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> > Would it be possible to use __thread annotations for per-CPU
> > variables, I wonder?
> 
> Paul Mackerras tried it on powerpc and you can't do it.
> 
> The problem is that there is no way to tell the compiler that sched()
> and similar (potentially) change the thread pointer base.
> 
> It really will cache pre-computed __thread pointer calculations across
> sched().

Yeah...  I thought there might be something like that - but I could see x86_64
using %fs as a base.

David
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