Re: Poll about irqsafe_cpu_add and others

[Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > > I wonder why we dont use :
> > >
> > > 	addl	$0x2,%fs:xt_u64
> > > 	addcl	$0x0,%fs:xt_u64+4
> >
> > The compiler is fed the following
> >
> > 	*__this_cpu_ptr(xt_u64) += 2
> >
> > __this_cpu_ptr makes it:
> >
> > 	*(xt_u64 + __my_cpu_offset) += 2
> >
> > So the compiler calculates the address first and then increments it.
> >
> > The compiler could optimize this I think. Wonder why that does not happen.
>
> Compiler is really forced to compute addr, thats why.
>
> Hmm, we should not fallback to generic ops I think, but tweak
>
> percpu_add_op() {

percpu_add_op() is not used. This is a 64 bit operation on a 32 bit
machine thus we fall back to this_cpu_generic_to_op()

#define __this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op)                          \
do {                                                                    \
        *__this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)) op val;                                 \
} while (0)