From: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"eric.dumazet@gmail.com" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:11:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318428673.29699.13.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318382964.27949.782.camel@debian>
> > Is this a revised patch? I do not see a use of the __this_cpu_xx ops.
>
> I just changed where you pointed as below at the patch line 146:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> #define __percpu_prefix "%%"__stringify(__percpu_seg)":"
> -#define __my_cpu_offset percpu_read(this_cpu_off)
> +#define __my_cpu_offset __this_cpu_read(this_cpu_off)
>
> I do not quite understand you here. Do you mean to change every possible
> this_cpu_xxx() to __this_cpu_xxx()?
I thought again of this_cpu_xxx function, yes, some of them are better
to be replaced by __this_cpu__xxx if preemption is safe on the scenario.
But this change is better to be done in another patch. I did not
finished all changed function check today. May try again in next week.
What's you pinion of this?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-12 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 9:10 [PATCH] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions Alex,Shi
2011-10-10 17:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-11 9:19 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-11 14:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-12 1:29 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-12 13:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-12 14:11 ` Alex,Shi [this message]
2011-10-12 14:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-18 3:21 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-18 14:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-19 9:23 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-19 9:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-20 2:45 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 7:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] kvm: use this_cpu_xxx replace percpu_xxx funcs Alex,Shi
2011-10-24 2:50 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-24 11:05 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-21 9:02 ` Alex,Shi
2011-11-21 9:20 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-21 9:52 ` Alex,Shi
2012-01-11 8:48 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-19 15:34 ` [PATCH] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions Christoph Lameter
2011-10-20 2:44 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 5:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-20 6:04 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 6:13 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 6:04 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 7:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] code clean and optimzed for percpu_xxx serials funcs Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 7:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] net: use this_cpu_xxx replace percpu_xxx funcs Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 8:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-11-21 9:00 ` Alex,Shi
2011-12-02 2:33 ` Alex,Shi
2011-12-02 11:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2012-01-11 8:45 ` Alex,Shi
2012-01-11 9:03 ` David Miller
2012-01-11 9:10 ` Alex,Shi
2011-10-20 7:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions Alex,Shi
2011-11-21 9:10 ` Alex,Shi
2011-11-22 0:06 ` tj
2012-01-11 9:08 ` Alex,Shi
2012-01-11 17:19 ` tj
2012-01-12 0:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-12 2:05 ` Alex,Shi
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