Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:19:44 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated |
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:55:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > local_t isn't much use until we get rid of asm-generic/local.h. Bloaty, > racy with nested interrupts.
The overuse of atomics is horrific in what is being proposed. All the major architectures except powerpc (i386, x86-64, ia64, and sparc64) implement local_t. It would make far more sense to push the last few stragglers (which mostly seem to be uniprocessor) into writing the appropriate implementations. Perhaps it's time to add a #error in asm-generic/local.h?
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