From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
bcrl@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add percpu_counter_mod_bh
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:14:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440FE3E2.1060307@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060309080651.GA3599@localhost.localdomain>
Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> Here's a patch making x86_64 local_t to 64 bits like other 64 bit arches.
> This keeps local_t unsigned long. (We can change it to signed value
> along with other arches later in one go I guess)
>
Why not just keep naming and structure of interfaces consistent with
atomic_t?
That would be signed and 32-bit. You then also have a local64_t.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-08 1:58 [patch 0/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars on struct proto Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 1:59 ` [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add percpu_counter_mod_bh Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 2:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 20:26 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 20:36 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-08 21:07 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 21:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-08 22:25 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 22:41 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-08 23:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-09 0:18 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-09 0:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-09 8:06 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-09 4:14 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-09 8:14 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-09 8:22 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-09 8:41 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-09 18:39 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-08 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-09 2:21 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-09 2:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 2:01 ` [patch 2/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- struct proto.memory_allocated Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 2:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 3:08 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 3:22 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 20:54 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 2:02 ` [patch 3/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- proto.sockets_allocated Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 2:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-08 20:56 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2006-03-08 2:03 ` [patch 4/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- proto.inuse Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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