On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > * Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: >> > >> > What's the practical effect of it? Do we copy the value from the boot CPU >> > and >> > thus the secondary CPUs start with slightly increased stats? >> >> Yes, it is the major effect. >> >> Also the arch dependent __my_cpu_offset might be initialized a bit late. > > I suspect we could try to fix it - post-initializing it after percpu setup > sounds > like a viable option, if it does not get too ugly.
OK, I may post a patch for review, but the arch dependent __my_cpu_offset still need to be initialized very early. Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- 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/
