ed percpu variable is provided. Preempt, the non preempt and the irqsafe operations generate the same code. It will always be possible to have the requires per cpu atomicness in a single RMW instruction with segment override on x86. 64 bit this_cpu operations are not supported on 32 bit. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo