Re: [PATCH] use local_t for page statistics

[Christoph Lameter]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Saturday 07 January 2006 03:52, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> > No. On many load/store architectures there is no good way to do local_t,
> > so something like ppc32 or ia64 just uses all atomic operations for
> 
> well, they're just broken and need to be fixed to not do that.

I tried to use local_t on ia64 for page statistics and have to agree with 
Nick. local_t has highly arch specific semantics.

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