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SubjectRe: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 08:19:44PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 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?
>

Surely asm-generic/local.h could now be reimplemented using atomic_long_t
to kill that aberration that is the BITS_PER_LONG != 32 case currently...?
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