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We are just trading accuracy for speed here. > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:47:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:20:43 +0200> > Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm also wondering why the profile> > > patch contains this:> > > > > > + if (ret)> > > + likeliness->count[1]++;> > > + else> > > + likeliness->count[0]++;> > > > > > This isn't smp safe. Is that on purpose or a bug? > > > > Purposeful. This is called from all contexts, including NMI.> > Why not use atomic_inc then? Or is there some architecture > dependent limitation that it can't be done in every context? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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