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

From: Benjamin LaHaise <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:39:29 -0500

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:41:08PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Considering that local_t has been broken so that basically nobody
> is using it, now is a great time to rethink the types before it
> gets fixed and people start using it.

I'm starting to get more concerned as the per-cpu changes that keep adding 
more overhead is getting out of hand.

> And modelling the type on the atomic types would make the most
> sense because everyone already knows them.

Except that the usage models are different; local_t is most likely to be 
used for cpu local statistics or for sequences, where making them signed 
is a bit backwards.

		-ben
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