From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:47:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adafxtllpac.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080416164404.GM9191@parisc-linux.org> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:44:04 -0600")
> The cookies aren't checked by the kcounter implementation if
> CONFIG_DEBUG_KCOUNTER isn't set. So you can avoid storing them if it's
> *really* that important to shrink your data structures.
I guess if anyone cared we could have something analogous to
DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR() et al that compiles to nothing if
CONFIG_DEBUG_KCOUNTER isn't set. But I'm not sure it's worth it.
Certainly for the mthca/mlx4 cases of semaphore use there's no problem
holding onto a cookie.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-11 21:00 [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12 6:43 ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-12 10:31 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-04-12 12:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-12 17:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12 18:01 ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-12 18:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-12 19:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-12 19:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-12 19:53 ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-12 20:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-13 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 12:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 15:58 ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-14 16:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 16:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-14 17:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 17:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-14 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 18:09 ` Daniel Walker
2008-04-14 19:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 6:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15 6:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-15 7:17 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-15 13:15 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-15 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 16:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 17:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-15 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-16 12:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-16 12:59 ` Killable stat/readdir Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-15 17:15 ` [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-15 17:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-15 18:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-16 16:07 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-04-16 16:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:31 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-04-16 16:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:42 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-04-16 16:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 16:47 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-04-16 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 16:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 17:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-16 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-16 18:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 19:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-13 14:55 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-14 17:12 ` API documentation (was [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores) Jonathan Corbet
2008-04-14 17:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-14 18:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-13 13:55 ` [PATCH] Replace completions with semaphores Bart Van Assche
2008-04-13 14:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-13 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-13 12:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 15:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-14 17:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-14 16:54 ` Jens Axboe
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2008-04-16 10:22 ` Bodo Eggert
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