On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:59:17PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Do not use the page_table_lock in do_anonymous_page. This will significantly
> > increase the parallelism in the page fault handler for SMP systems. The patch
> > also modifies the definitions of _mm_counter functions so that rss and anon_rss
> > become atomic (and will use atomic64_t if available).
>
> I thought we said all architectures should provide an atomic64_t (and
> given that it's not actually 64bit on 32bit architecture we should
> probably rename it to atomic_long_t)
Yes the way atomic types are provided may need a revision.
First of all we need atomic types that are size bound
atomic8_t
atomic16_t
atomic32_t
and (if available)
atomic64_t
and then some aliases
atomic_t -> atomic type for int
atomic_long_t -> atomic type for long
If these types are available then this patch could be cleaned up to
just use atomic_long_t.
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