[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/9] net: openvswitch: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Jesse Gross wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Shan Wei wrote:
> >
> >> But for different field in same per-cpu variable, how to guarantee n_missed
> >> and n_hit are from same cpu?
> >> this_cpu_read(dp->stats_percpu->n_missed);
> >> [processor changed]
> >> this_cpu_read(dp->stats_percpu->n_hit);
> >
> > What does current guarantee that? If it is guaranteed then you can use the
> > __this_cpu_xxx ops.
>
> Preemption is disabled in all of the places where writes are done and
> all of the reads are from foreign CPUs.

Since preemption is disabled no processor change can occur. So its safe to
use __this_cpu ops throughout and they will operate on the current per cpu
area.