Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:46:38 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [this_cpu_xx V7 0/8] Per cpu atomics in core allocators and cleanup |
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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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