From: "David Mosberger-Tang" <dmosberger@gmail.com>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:10:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed5aea430711271310i144c005cj25101b7dd6b0d6d9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711271014550.2310@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On 11/27/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
>
> > On 11/26/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > The model(small) attribute is not supported by gcc 4.X. The tests
> > > will always be negative today.
> >
> > What was the rationale for removing this attribute?
>
> The code is then similar across all architectures and can be moved into
> generic code.
Uniformity for the sake of uniformity? The small data addressing is
really elegant and I don't think it should be dropped just for the
sake of uniformity.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-27 0:14 [patch 00/14] Per cpu code simplification Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 01/14] Modules: Handle symbols that have a zero value Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 02/14] Modules: Include sections.h to avoid defining linker variables explicitly Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 03/14] Modules: Fold percpu_modcopy into module.c and get rid of the macro from hell Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 04/14] ia64: Remove the __SMALL_ADDR_AREA attribute for per cpu access Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 5:20 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2007-11-27 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 21:10 ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]
2007-11-27 21:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 21:27 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2007-11-27 22:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 9:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-27 18:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 21:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-11-27 21:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 22:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 4:30 ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-27 18:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-28 1:36 ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-28 18:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-28 23:17 ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-28 23:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-30 2:23 ` Rusty Russell
2007-11-28 23:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-29 0:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 1:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-29 1:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 1:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-29 1:32 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-29 1:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 1:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-29 1:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 1:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-29 2:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 5:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-29 6:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-29 6:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 23:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-28 0:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-28 0:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 06/14] percpu: Move arch XX_PER_CPU_XX definitions into linux/percpu.h Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 07/14] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more generic Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 08/14] x86_32: Use generic percpu.h Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 09/14] x86_64: Use generic percpu Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 10/14] s390: " Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 11/14] Powerpc: Use generic per cpu Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 7:41 ` Kumar Gala
2007-11-27 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 20:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-27 21:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-28 2:35 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-11-28 18:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-12-02 20:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 12/14] Sparc64: Use generic percpu Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 13/14] ia64: " Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 1:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-11-27 0:14 ` [patch 14/14] x86: Unify percpu.h Christoph Lameter
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