linux-kernel - Re: Per-CPU data as a structure

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Message-ID: <20070504140753.GA4344@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 4 May 2007 16:07:53 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmerino@...upc.edu>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Per-CPU data as a structure

> +/*
> + * percpu provides a mechanism to define variables that are specific to 
> each
> + * CPU in the system.
> + *
> + * Each variable is defined as an independent array of NR_CPUS elements.

The independent array term seems misleading to me. There isn't really
an array anywhere. Perhaps explain it in more details.

If you write documentation please write it in Kerneldoc format so 
that it can be automatically extracted. See
Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt

-Andi

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