Re: [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 12/16/2009 10:40 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 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 ?

Hmmm... you can store percpu pointer to a variable.  If there are the
same number of commit_count for each cpu, they can be allocated using
percpu allocator and their pointers can be stored, offset and
dereferenced.  Would that be enough?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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