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Subject: Re: broken local_t on i386
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Also on non preemptive kernels - which are the majority - it's a single
> instruction on x86. I guess preempt users can live with a bit more
> overhead ... 

I hope you will be fixing the cpu_local_* macros for i386 and x86_64 and 
add some appropriate docs? Are there any existing uses in the kernel?