On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

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> The question that arises is : are there some architectures that do not
> provide fast PER_CPU ops but provides fast local atomic ops ?

There were only a few no critical users of local_t before this patch. So I 
doubt that it matters.
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