Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove unneeded preempt_disable

Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-25T23:01:58Z

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 12:29 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> Therefore from the risc point of view, most of the this_cpu_xxx
> operations are things that we don't really care about except that the
> result would be easier to read in C.

Right, so the current fallback case is pretty much the optimal case for
the RISC machines, which ends up with generic code being better off not
using it much and instead preferring __this_cpu if there's more than
one.

I mean, its absolutely awesome these things are 1 instruction on x86,
but if we pessimize all other 20-odd architectures its just not cool.