Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:22:30 +0800 | From | Shan Wei <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/9] net: openvswitch: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper |
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Christoph Lameter said, at 2012/11/3 1:46: >> u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->sync); >> stats->tx_packets++; > > Use this_cpu_inc(vport->percpu_stats->packets) here?
Lots of network drivers use u64_stats_sync infrastructure for statistics on 32bit or 64bit hosts no matter how many members in per-cpu variable.
keep them be consistent, so no plan to change them.
Thanks
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