Re: [cpuops cmpxchg V2 3/5] irq_work: Use per cpu atomics insteadof regular atomics

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/15/2010 08:32 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 05:28 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> The irq work queue is a per cpu object and it is sufficient for
>> synchronization if per cpu atomics are used. Doing so simplifies
>> the code and reduces the overhead of the code.
>>
>> Before:
>>
>> christoph@xxxxxxxxx$ size kernel/irq_work.o
>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>     451	      8	      1	    460	    1cc	kernel/irq_work.o
>>
>> After:
>>
>> christoph@xxxxxxxxx$ size kernel/irq_work.o 
>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>     438	      8	      1	    447	    1bf	kernel/irq_work.o
>>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Peter, can you please ack this one?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

... for tis whole series.

	-hpa


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