Re: [thisops uV3 15/18] Xen: Use this_cpu_ops

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On 11/30/2010 11:07 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>  static irqreturn_t xen_timer_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>  {
> -	struct clock_event_device *evt = &__get_cpu_var(xen_clock_events);
>  	irqreturn_t ret;
>  
>  	ret = IRQ_NONE;
> -	if (evt->event_handler) {
> -		evt->event_handler(evt);
> +	if (__this_cpu_read(xen_clock_events.event_handler)) {
> +		__this_cpu_read(xen_clock_events.event_handler)(evt);

Really?  What code does this generate?  If this is generating two
segment-prefixed reads rather than getting the address and doing normal
reads on it, then I don't think it is an improvement.

The rest looks OK, I guess.  How does it change the generated code?

    J

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