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SubjectRe: [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup
* Tejun Heo (tj@kernel.org) wrote:
> Hello, Mathieu.
>
> On 12/16/2009 02:43 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > So I think accessing the "local_t offset" through percpu pointers should
> > be fine if I allocate struct ltt_chanbuf through the per cpu API.
> > However, I wonder how to deal with the commit_count counters, because
> > there is an indirection level.
>
> Are they different in numbers for different cpus?

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 ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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> Thanks.
>
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> tejun

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