Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] per-cpu patch 2/3 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 18 Jul 2002 10:05:26 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 20:48, Rusty Russell wrote: > Given the ongoing races with smp_processor_id() and preempt, this > makes sense to me. this_cpu() was too generic a name anyway.
Very nice, although:
How do you reenable preemption?
We already have get_cpu() and put_cpu() which do pretty much what you are suggesting (and put_cpu() enables preemption) and are used by code today. If you want to make changes to them, that is fine, but we should keep the interface...
Robert Love
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