On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:53:07PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > That too should be kcpustat_this_cpu_set(), or kcpustat_this_cpu_add() > FWIW. But we probably don't need the overhead of atomic_add() that > does a LOCK. > atomic_set(var, atomic_read(var) + delta) would be better. All we need
You mean atomic64_set() and atomic64_read(). Looking at the generic version in lib/atomic64.c, atomic64_add() is cheaper for 32-bit arches because it doesn't involve taking the lock twice. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
