possible readability improvement for i386 pcpu macros:
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Mon Aug 3 17:45:41 UTC 2009
John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 02 August 2009 6:23:26 am Julian Elischer wrote:
>> if you have to ever look at the output of the cpp then this removes a
>> number of things you have to puzzle over in the output of PCPU_SET()
>> and friends.
>>
>>
>> I don't know if it applies to the other architectures.
>
> It probably applies to amd64. Also, simplifying the amount of code the macros
> generate can reduce compile time. That is why Peter added __curthread() so
> that all the curthread references did not have to compile a fully expanded
> PCPU_GET() macro each time. It gave a noticable reduction in kernel compile
> time.
>
turns out it is already in amd64..
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