Re: [patch 3/4] net: Percpufy frequently used variables -- proto.sockets_allocated

[Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:55:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> local_t isn't much use until we get rid of asm-generic/local.h.  Bloaty,
> racy with nested interrupts.

The overuse of atomics is horrific in what is being proposed.  All the
major architectures except powerpc (i386, x86-64, ia64, and sparc64) 
implement local_t.  It would make far more sense to push the last few 
stragglers (which mostly seem to be uniprocessor) into writing the 
appropriate implementations.  Perhaps it's time to add a #error in 
asm-generic/local.h?

		-ben
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