From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030314AbWFIRSi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:18:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030316AbWFIRSi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:18:38 -0400 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:27520 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030314AbWFIRSh (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:18:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:18:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality In-Reply-To: <20060609100627.5ff14228.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20060608230239.25121.83503.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060608230244.25121.76440.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20060608210045.62129826.akpm@osdl.org> <20060609100627.5ff14228.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > There's no need for an atomic op - at the most the architecture would need > local_irq_disable() protection, and that's only if it doesn't have an > atomic-wrt-this-cpu add instruction. So I can drop the VM_STATS() definitions? > > Right thought about that one as well. Can we stablize this first before I > > do another big reorg? > > That's unfortunate patch ordering. Do it (much) later I guess. Well there are a couple of trailing issues that would have to be resolved before that happens. I have another patchset here that does something more to the remaining counters.