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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@ru.mvista.com>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 3/4] IPMI: convert locked counters to atomics
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:20:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BC4543.2050503@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080216164434.GC13922@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com>

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:30:51PM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
>   
>> From: Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@ru.mvista.com>
>>
>> Atomics are a lot more efficient and neat than using a lock.
>>     
>
> per_cpu variables are a lot more efficient and neat than using locks
> for simple statistics.  no cache line bouncing to increment the
> counter.  Are these read so often that atomics are really better?
>   
I agree, I'll put this in the plan for the future.  I don't have time to 
do it at this point, but the changes made in these patches should make 
it easy to change in the future.

Thanks,

-corey

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-14 18:30 Corey Minyard
2008-02-14 19:11 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-14 19:33   ` Corey Minyard
2008-02-14 20:23     ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-15 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-15 14:08   ` [Openipmi-developer] " Corey Minyard
2008-02-16 16:44 ` Matt Domsch
2008-02-20 15:20   ` Corey Minyard [this message]

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