Re: [PATCH 3/4]percpu_counter: fix code for 32bit systems

[Eric Dumazet]

Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 Ã 11:03 +0800, Shaohua Li a Ãcrit :
> I can do this, but please give a reason. If network code is the only
> place requiring disable irq, why not network code do it?
> 

Lot of percpu_counter users dont use full s64 range, but "unsigned long"
or "unsigned int". Adding a lock on 32bit arches to get the s64, then
truncate it is not needed.

This discussion reminds me an old one ;)

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ext4/2008/12/12/4401894



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