From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:46:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288986391.2665.157.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101105123927.5779e464.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 à 12:39 -0700, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Ah. I wasn't able to see much duplicated code at all, so I wasn't sure
> that we needed to bother about this issue.
>
> yup, atomic_inc_not_zero() looks like a candidate.
yes, and atomic_add_unless()...
>
> > [PATCH v3] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
>
> Let's go with this for now ;)
>
> I'll assume that you intend to make use of this function soon, and it
> looks safe enough to sneak it into 2.6.37-rc2, IMO. If Linus shouts at
> me then we could merge it into 2.6.38-rc1 via net-next, but I think
> straight-to-mainline is best.
>
Well, I dont expect using it before 2.6.38, no hurry Andrew, but it
probably can be merged before, since it has no user yet. It'll help our
job for sure.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-05 16:53 [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 17:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 18:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:08 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 18:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:28 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 19:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 19:39 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-05 19:46 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-11-05 19:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-12 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-13 22:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-15 13:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:07 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 14:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-15 14:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-11-15 14:39 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 14:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-05 18:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-11-05 19:12 ` Eric Dumazet
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