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Message-ID: <20091216014031.GA12282@Krystal>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:40:31 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and
cleanup
* Tejun Heo (tj@...nel.org) wrote:
> Hello, Mathieu.
>
> On 12/16/2009 02:43 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > So I think accessing the "local_t offset" through percpu pointers should
> > be fine if I allocate struct ltt_chanbuf through the per cpu API.
> > However, I wonder how to deal with the commit_count counters, because
> > there is an indirection level.
>
> Are they different in numbers for different cpus?
Nope, there is the same number of sub-buffers for each per-cpu buffer.
I just want to see if supplementary indirections are allowed after
dereferencing the per-cpu pointer ?
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> Thanks.
>
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> tejun
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