On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:07:26PM -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > Last time I checked, all the major architectures had efficient local_t > implementations. Most of the RISC CPUs are able to do a load / store > conditional implementation that is the same cost (since memory barriers > tend to be explicite on powerpc). So why not use it?
Then, for the batched percpu_counters, we could gain by using local_t only for the UP case. But we will have to have a new local_long_t implementation for that. Do you think just one use case of local_long_t warrants for a new set of apis? Kiran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
