Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] net: core: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 20:08 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Shan Wei wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/net/core/flow.c b/net/core/flow.c
> > index e318c7e..b0901ee 100644
> > --- a/net/core/flow.c
> > +++ b/net/core/flow.c
> > @@ -327,11 +327,9 @@ static void flow_cache_flush_tasklet(unsigned long data)
> >  static void flow_cache_flush_per_cpu(void *data)
> >  {
> >  	struct flow_flush_info *info = data;
> > -	int cpu;
> >  	struct tasklet_struct *tasklet;
> >
> > -	cpu = smp_processor_id();
> > -	tasklet = &per_cpu_ptr(info->cache->percpu, cpu)->flush_tasklet;
> > +	tasklet = this_cpu_ptr(&info->cache->percpu->flush_tasklet);
> >  	tasklet->data = (unsigned long)info;
> 
> this_cpu_write(info->cache->percpu->flush_tasklet->data, (unsigned
> 	long)info);
> 
> should also do the trick in less instructions and get rid of all temporary
> variables as well.

Its not the case.

We need the _pointer_ to call :

tasklet_schedule(tasklet);