Re: [PATCH 02/23] lib: percpu_counter_add

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:45:27AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
...
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/balloc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/balloc.c
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/balloc.c
> @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static int reserve_blocks(struct super_b
>  			return 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	percpu_counter_mod(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter, -count);
> +	percpu_counter_add(&sbi->s_freeblocks_counter, -count);

Out of curiosity, I noticed similar thing being done in the vm code, what is
preferred:

	foobar_add(&counter, -num);

or

	foobar_sub(&counter, num);

?

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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