On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:32:34PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The definition of the irq_stat as an array means that the individual > elements of the irq_stat array are located on one NUMA node requiring > internode traffic to access irq_stat from other nodes. This patch makes > irq_stat a per_cpu variable which allows most accesses to be local.
There's architectures accessing it from assemly. But furthermore there's absolutely not point for the irq_stat structure at all anymore now that we have the per_cpu infrastructure. so kill it completely and let every architecture just provide a local_softirq_pending macro. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/