Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:56:29 -0500 | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] block, mempool, percpu: implement percpu mempool and fix blkcg percpu alloc deadlock |
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:58:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:40:43 -0500 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote: > > > That's why the need of per cpu data structures to make stat collection > > lockless. > > btw, (and this is a common refrain): was there any reason for avoiding > using percpu_counters here?
Frankly speaking I did not consider that. I will look into it (/me needs to read up a bit on per cpu counter and look at code examples).
Thanks Vivek
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