Re: [PATCH] percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:15:44AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > So if you could design the API such that we have a variant of add/inc 
> > that automatically disables/enables preemption then we can optimise that 
> > away on x86.
> 
> Yeah. percpu_add(var, 1) does exactly that on x86.

Awesome! Sounds like we can finally do away with those nasty
hacks in the SNMP macros.

Cheers,
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