netdev - Re: [PATCH] core: fix the use of this_cpu

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Date:	Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:21:39 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	RongQing Li <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Shan Wei <davidshan@...cent.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core: fix the use of this_cpu_ptr

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, RongQing Li wrote:

> > &this_cpu_ptr is always an error since you are taking the addresss of an
> > address.
> >
>
> &this_cpu_ptr()->flush_tasklet,   "->" has high priority than "&"
> so the result is same as
>  &(this_cpu_ptr()->flush_tasklet)

Ok. This is the same as

	this_cpu_read(xxx.flush_tasklet)

Looks less confusing to me.

> flush_tasklet is not a percpu var, it is a member of percpu var.

Well then it would be best to use this_cpu_read() instead of this_cpu_ptr.
It also will generate better code.

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