Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:38:20 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality |
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:18:23 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > There's no need for an atomic op - at the most the architecture would need > > local_irq_disable() protection, and that's only if it doesn't have an > > atomic-wrt-this-cpu add instruction. > > So I can drop the VM_STATS() definitions?
I _think_ so. But a bit of a review of the existing atomic ops for the major architectures wouldn't hurt.
> > > Right thought about that one as well. Can we stablize this first before I > > > do another big reorg? > > > > That's unfortunate patch ordering. Do it (much) later I guess. > > Well there are a couple of trailing issues that would have to be resolved > before that happens. I have another patchset here that does something more > to the remaining counters.
It's a relatively minor issue - we can do this little cleanup much later on. - 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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