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SubjectRe: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
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Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 à 11:40 -0700, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :

> OK, so I cannot resist the challenge... ;-)
>

I knew that ;)

> Suppose that the atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() is in common code that might
> be invoked from a cleanup path. On the cleanup path, perhaps within an
> RCU callback, if the reference is zero, we have the only reference and
> thus don't need to increment the reference count. On the other hand,
> if the reference is non-zero, we want to obtain a reference in order
> to safely attempt to encourage the other reference holder to let go
> more quickly.
>
> Perhaps a bit of a stretch, but why not just replace the above
> "return 0" with "atomic_inc_not_zero(v)"? It will usually be
> compiled out, right?

Yes indeed, thanks !



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