From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:29:56 -0800 Message-ID: <20060128172956.54bcdb19.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060126190357.GE3651@localhost.localdomain> <43D9DFA1.9070802@cosmosbay.com> <20060127195227.GA3565@localhost.localdomain> <20060127121602.18bc3f25.akpm@osdl.org> <20060127224433.GB3565@localhost.localdomain> <43DAA586.5050609@cosmosbay.com> <20060127151635.3a149fe2.akpm@osdl.org> <43DABAA4.8040208@cosmosbay.com> <20060129004459.GA24099@kvack.org> <20060128165549.262f2b90.akpm@osdl.org> <20060129011944.GB24099@kvack.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, kiran@scalex86.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pravins@calsoftinc.com Return-path: To: Benjamin LaHaise In-Reply-To: <20060129011944.GB24099@kvack.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:55:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > local_t isn't much use until we get rid of asm-generic/local.h. Bloaty, > > racy with nested interrupts. > > The overuse of atomics is horrific in what is being proposed. Well yeah, it wasn't really a very serious proposal. There's some significant work yet to be done on this stuff. > Perhaps it's time to add a #error in asm-generic/local.h? heh, or #warning "you suck" or something.