Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:26:14 +0200 | From | Michal Kubecek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bonding:avoid repeated display of same link status change |
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 09:10:44AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > On 10/23/2018 08:54 AM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote: > > > Atomic operations are expensive (on certain architectures) and miimon > > runs quite frequently. Is the added cost of these atomic operations > > even worth just to avoid *duplicate info* messages? This seems like a > > overkill! > > atomic_read() is a simple read, no atomic operation involved. > > Same remark for atomic_set()
Which makes me wonder if the patch really needs atomic_t.
Michal Kubecek
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