David Howells writes:
> Would it not be better to use some sort of atomic add/subtract/clear operation
> rather than a spinlock? (Which would also give you fewer atomic memory access
> cycles).
Please see older threads about this, it has been discussed to death
already (hint: sizeof(atomic_t), sizeof(unsigned long)).
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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