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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:06:02 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] Implement per-processor data areas for
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:21:55 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:

> Something like that had to be done eventually about the inefficient
> current_thread_info() mechanism, but I wasn't sure what exactly.

In 2.6.18 it's done in C and the optimizer does a pretty good job
with it in recent compilers.

-- 
Chuck