Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:23:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on 32 bit architecture |
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On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:28:10 -0400 "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> The following patch has been sitting in the ext4 patch queue for about > six weeks. It was there it was a suspected cause for block allocation > bug. As I recall, it we found the true root cause since then, but this > has stuck around since it's a potential problem. Andrew has expressed > concerns that this patch might have performance impacts.
Performace impacts I guess we'll just have to put up with. iirc I was thinking that this implementation should be pushed down to a kernel-wide atomic64_t and then the percpu_counters would just use that type.
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