Re: [v1 5/6] sparc64: new context wrap

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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 16:10:04 -0400

> Going through NCPU proportional loop for xcall purpose or 'mm'
> pointers is a fundamental limitation when there is only one global
> context counter per system. To solve this limitation would be a
> different project: we will need multiple context counters per system:
> up-to one per core. Bob Picco is working on adding this support. In
> that case the loop sizes are going to be bound by:
> NCPU / (# context domains)

I see, I think MIPS uses per-cpu context IDs, perhaps you can see how
they handle this.

Thanks.
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