From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752020AbaANAS5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:18:57 -0500 Received: from LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.151]:57642 "EHLO LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751414AbaANASy (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:18:54 -0500 X-AuditID: 9c930197-b7c20ae000001031-67-52d4826bbae9 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:19:35 +0900 From: Minchan Kim To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nitin Gupta , Jerome Marchand , Sergey Senozhatsky Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] zram: use atomic operation for stat Message-ID: <20140114001935.GW1992@bbox> References: <1389611942-15544-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1389611942-15544-5-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20140113155814.07ab74c8f77179fc770a8e5f@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140113155814.07ab74c8f77179fc770a8e5f@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:58:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:18:59 +0900 Minchan Kim wrote: > > > Some of fields in zram->stats are protected by zram->lock which > > is rather coarse-grained so let's use atomic operation without > > explict locking. > > Confused. The patch didn't remove any locking, so it made the code > slower. True but it could make remove dependency of zram->lock for 32bit stat so further patches can remove messy code and enhance write performance. So, it's preparing patch for further step. Should I rewrite the description to explain this? > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim