Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add percpu_counter_mod_bh

From: Benjamin LaHaise <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:41:40 -0500

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:25:28PM -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Then, for the batched percpu_counters, we could gain by using local_t only for 
> the UP case. But we will have to have a new local_long_t implementation 
> for that.  Do you think just one use case of local_long_t warrants for a new
> set of apis?

I think it may make more sense to simply convert local_t into a long, given 
that most of the users will be things like stats counters.

		-ben
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