On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> wrote: > > > The kernel has never been audited to ensure that this_cpu operations > > are consistently used throughout the kernel. The code generated in > > many places can be improved through the use of this_cpu operations > > (which uses a segment register for relocation of per cpu offsets > > instead of performing address calculations). > > Your series lacks the this_cpu ops preempt debugging patches that you > worked on before, what happened to them?
They are included. Please read the complete description. Patches 13 14 and 18 implement the preemption checks. > Those debug facilities caught kernel real bugs and they are thus > essential before any percpu extension can be done. Yes please apply the preemptiopn debug patches included in this series ASAP. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
