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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] percpu: convert SNMP mibs to new infra
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:34:33 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904021534.34084.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D3B61F.8010507@cosmosbay.com>

On Thursday 02 April 2009 05:14:47 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Here is a preliminary patch for SNMP mibs that seems to work well on x86_32
> 
> [RFC] percpu: convert SNMP mibs to new infra

OK, I have a whole heap of "convert to dynamic per-cpu" patches waiting in
the wings too, once Tejun's conversion is complete.

Also, what is optimal depends on the arch: we had a long discussion on this
(it's what local_t was supposed to do, with cpu_local_inc() etc: see
Subject: local_add_return 2008-12-16 thread).

eg. on S/390, atomic_inc is a win over the two-counter version.  On Sparc,
two-counter wins.  On x86, inc wins (obviously).

But efforts to create a single primitive have been problematic: maybe
open-coding it like this is the Right Thing.

Cheers,
Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02  5:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01  8:13 [PATCH] x86: percpu_to_op() misses memory and flags clobbers Eric Dumazet
2009-04-01  9:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-01 10:14   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-01 16:12     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 16:41       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-01 16:44         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 17:13       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-01 18:07         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-01 18:47           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-02  9:52           ` Herbert Xu
2009-04-02 14:12             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-01 18:44         ` [RFC] percpu: convert SNMP mibs to new infra Eric Dumazet
2009-04-02  0:13           ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-02  4:05             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02  8:07               ` [PATCH] " Eric Dumazet
2009-04-03  0:39                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-03 17:10                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-02  5:04           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-04-02  5:19             ` [RFC] " Eric Dumazet
2009-04-02 11:46               ` Rusty Russell

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