"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <[email protected]> writes:
> Similarly, and if I understood it correctly, the PDA (Per-processor
> Data Area) also aims to do the above, but at the moment it only
> contains some fields and is not defined in all platforms. There are
> still a lot of usages of the percpu functionality (such as, e.g., in
> kernel/sched.c).
PDA is an earlier version of percpu; it still can be more efficiently
accessed so it is kept for some low level code.
> As far as I can tell, the advantage of percpu is that you can define
> new "fields" anywhere in the code and independently from the rest of
> the system.
- Independent maintenance as you noted
- Fast access and relatively compact code
- Avoids false sharing by keeping cache lines of different CPUs separate
- Doesn't waste a lot of memory in padding like NR_CPUs arrays usually
need to to avoid the previous point.
Any replacement that doesn't have these properties too will probably
be not useful.
-Andi
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