Re: [PATCH] memcg: remove unneeded preempt_disable

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Also, I thought this_cpu thing's were at best locally atomic. If you
> make them full blown atomic ops then even __this_cpu ops will have to be
> full atomic ops, otherwise:
>
>
> CPU0			CPU(1)
>
> this_cpu_inc(&foo);	preempt_disable();
> 			__this_cpu_inc(&foo);
> 			preempt_enable();
>
> might step on each other's toes.

They would both have their own instance of "foo". per cpu atomicity is
only one requirement of this_cpu_ops. The other is the ability to relocate
accesses relative to the current per cpu area.

Full blown atomicity is almost a superset of per cpu atomicity but its
only usable if the full atomic instructions can also relocate accesses
relative to some base.

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