From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
davidm@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:08:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319000809.GA1647@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16n74r-00024V-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>
On 2002.03.19 Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>> > static struct myinfo mystuff __per_cpu_data;
>> >
>> > Now how do we set mystuff.x on this CPU?
>>
>> set_this_cpu(mystuff.x, y) could be eventually supported properly, it just
>> needs compiler work (and before that can use address calculation & reference)
>
>I think the effort would be better spent on teaching the compiler
>about these special variables, and how to do efficient assignments on
>them.
>
Not sure if suitable, but Microsoft C has a __declspec(thread) builtin
in the compiler. That beast would be fine also in gcc, something like
int self __attribute__ ((thread));
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you...
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[not found] <15504.7958.677592.908691@napali.hpl.hp.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <E16lMzi-0002bb-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-14 8:39 ` [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas Andi Kleen
2002-03-14 11:09 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 11:14 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-14 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 18:04 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-14 18:51 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-15 4:07 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15 9:13 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-17 7:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-18 7:35 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-19 0:02 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-19 0:08 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-03-19 0:15 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-19 17:05 ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-15 4:19 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-15 5:52 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] <15504.7958.677592.908691@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2002-03-14 4:37 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 5:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 11:14 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 11:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 12:16 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 12:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-15 1:00 ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-14 9:37 ` Richard Henderson
2002-03-14 18:06 ` David Mosberger
2001-12-05 22:09 Rusty Russell
2001-12-06 7:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-06 8:07 ` David S. Miller
2001-12-06 9:18 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-07 15:03 ` Pavel Machek
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