Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:45:14 -0500 | From | Kyle McMartin <> | Subject | Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated |
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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...? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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