Re: [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality

Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09T17:18:23Z

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> There's no need for an atomic op - at the most the architecture would need
> local_irq_disable() protection, and that's only if it doesn't have an
> atomic-wrt-this-cpu add instruction.

So I can drop the VM_STATS() definitions?

> > Right thought about that one as well. Can we stablize this first before I
> > do another big reorg?
>
> That's unfortunate patch ordering. Do it (much) later I guess.

Well there are a couple of trailing issues that would have to be resolved
before that happens. I have another patchset here that does something more
to the remaining counters.