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Subject: Re: FOR REVIEW: New x86-64 vsyscall vgetcpu()
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Ar Mer, 2006-06-14 am 09:42 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> Comments on the general mechanism are welcome. If someone is interested in using 
> this in user space for SMP or NUMA tuning please let me know.

Will 2 words always be enough, it costs nothing to demand 8 or 16 ...