Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] net: core: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper

From: Steffen Klassert
Date: Sat Nov 03 2012 - 04:21:05 EST


On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 05:44:55PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Shan Wei wrote:
> > +++ 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
>
> Another case for the use of this_cpu_read

Actually, smp_processor_id() is used if either preemtion is off or
in a thread that is bound to the current cpu. So all code that uses
smp_processor_id() should be able to use __this_cpu_read instead of
this_cpu_read.

In this case, flow_cache_flush_per_cpu() is called via smp_call_function(),
so it is bound on the current cpu.
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