On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:25:28PM -0800, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > 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? I think it may make more sense to simply convert local_t into a long, given that most of the users will be things like stats counters. -ben -- "Time is of no importance, Mr. President, only life is important." Don't Email: <[email protected]>. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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