From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add percpu_counter_mod_bh Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 18:13:01 -0800 Message-ID: <20060307181301.4dd6aa96.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060308015808.GA9062@localhost.localdomain> <20060308015934.GB9062@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org Return-path: To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai In-Reply-To: <20060308015934.GB9062@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > +static inline void percpu_counter_mod_bh(struct percpu_counter *fbc, long amount) > +{ > + local_bh_disable(); > + percpu_counter_mod(fbc, amount); > + local_bh_enable(); > +} > + percpu_counter_mod() does preempt_disable(), which is redundant in this context. So just do fbc->count += amount; here.