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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, sandeen@redhat.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v2] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on	32 bit architecture
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:18:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080825231805.GB3392@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825140518.GA7391@skywalker>

On Aug 25, 2008  19:35 +0530, Aneesh Kumar wrote:
> BTW does it make sense to do
> the above unconditionally now ? ie to remove the #if ?. How much
> impact would it be to do read_seqbegin and read_seqretry on a 64bit
> machine too ?

If we don't need it, why do it?  There is no benefit and just overhead.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-25 11:20 [RFC PATCH -v2] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on 32 bit architecture Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 11:20 ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 11:20   ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Retry block reservation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 11:20     ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 11:20       ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 11:20         ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: request for blocks with ar.excepted_group = -1 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-27  8:30           ` Akira Fujita
2008-08-25 21:31         ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count Mingming Cao
2008-08-25 21:26       ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting Mingming Cao
2008-08-25 21:06     ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Retry block reservation Mingming Cao
2008-08-25 21:00   ` [RFC PATCH -v2] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks Mingming Cao
2008-08-25 11:27 ` [RFC PATCH -v2] percpu_counters: make fbc->count read atomic on 32 bit architecture Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-25 14:05   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-08-25 14:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-08-25 23:18     ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-08-27  0:26 ` Andrew Morton

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