On Mon, 7 May 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > Ummm... The per cpu area is for exclusive use of a particular processor. > > If there is contention in the per cpu area then a data object needs to be > > removed from the per cpu area because the object is *not* accessed only > > from a certain cpu. > > Christoph, This data(that is being accessed by other cpus) also needs > to be defined for each cpu and as such it is getting appended (and > clearly seperated in a different section) to the data which is accessed > only by the local cpu. > > Not sure what your concern is.
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