Re: [PATCH] 2.5.1-pre5: per-cpu areas

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:35:11 +0100


On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:17:32PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:13:09 +0100
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:07:27PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > They must return an lvalue, otherwise they're useless for 50% of cases
> > > (ie. assignment). x86_64 can still use its own mechanism for
> > > arch-specific per-cpu data, of course.
> >
> > Assignment should use an own macro (set_this_cpu()) or use per_cpu().
>
> So, we'd have "get_this_cpu(x)" and "set_this_cpu(x, y)". So far, so good.
>
> struct myinfo
> {
> int x;
> int y;
> };
>
> static struct myinfo mystuff __per_cpu_data;
>
> Now how do we set mystuff.x on this CPU?

set_this_cpu(mystuff.x, y) could be eventually supported properly, it just
needs compiler work (and before that can use address calculation & reference)

&this_cpu(mystuff, y) will always be slow.

-Andi

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