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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] tcp: statistics not read_mostly
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:33:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312.143306.18307677.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070312142647.57038d85@freekitty>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:26:47 -0700

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
> > Look at the definition of DEFINE_SNMP_STAT().
> 
> Okay, that's confusing. And maybe the comment suggests future work:

Indeed.

> /* 
>  * FIXME: On x86 and some other CPUs the split into user and softirq parts
>  * is not needed because addl $1,memory is atomic against interrupts (but 
>  * atomic_inc would be overkill because of the lock cycles). Wants new 
>  * nonlocked_atomic_inc() primitives -AK
>  */ 

Yep.  And another interesting case are straight loads and stores of
per-cpu values on platforms that have a PDA'ish thing like x86_64 and
sparc64.  The latter has the per-cpu base in a register so in several
cases the usual preemption protection simply does not matter and we
could optimize them away.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-12 21:08 [patch 0/4] more stuff for 2.6.22 Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 1/4] network dev read_mostly Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:34   ` David Miller
2007-03-13  5:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 21:26     ` [RFC] Get rid of netdev_nit Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-21  0:02       ` David Miller
2007-03-15  2:18   ` [patch 1/4] network dev read_mostly Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-15  4:54     ` David Miller
2007-03-15  6:28     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15  7:25       ` David Miller
2007-03-15  7:42         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-15 13:17         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-16 17:03           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-15 15:10     ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 2/4] net: make seq_operations const Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:34   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 3/4] net: show bound packet types Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:35   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:08 ` [patch 4/4] tcp: statistics not read_mostly Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:15   ` David Miller
2007-03-12 21:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-12 21:33       ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-13 20:09       ` Andi Kleen

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