From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hugh@veritas.com,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:38:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060609103820.a8cfc7b4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606091016060.32632@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:18:23 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > There's no need for an atomic op - at the most the architecture would need
> > local_irq_disable() protection, and that's only if it doesn't have an
> > atomic-wrt-this-cpu add instruction.
>
> So I can drop the VM_STATS() definitions?
I _think_ so. But a bit of a review of the existing atomic ops for the
major architectures wouldn't hurt.
> > > Right thought about that one as well. Can we stablize this first before I
> > > do another big reorg?
> >
> > That's unfortunate patch ordering. Do it (much) later I guess.
>
> Well there are a couple of trailing issues that would have to be resolved
> before that happens. I have another patchset here that does something more
> to the remaining counters.
It's a relatively minor issue - we can do this little cleanup much later on.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-08 23:02 [PATCH 00/14] Zoned VM counters V2 Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09 4:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 4:38 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-09 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-06-09 9:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 18:19 ` Horst von Brand
2006-06-09 15:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09 17:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 17:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09 17:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-06-09 4:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-09 16:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 02/14] Include per zone counters in /proc/vmstat Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:02 ` [PATCH 03/14] Conversion of nr_mapped to per zone counter Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 04/14] Conversion of nr_pagecache " Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 04/14] Use per zone counters to remove zone_reclaim_interval Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09 4:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 18:54 ` zoned VM stats: Add NR_ANON Christoph Lameter
2006-06-10 4:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-06-10 4:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 06/14] Add per zone counters to zone node and global VM statistics Christoph Lameter
2006-06-09 4:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-09 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 07/14] Conversion of nr_slab to per zone counter Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 08/14] Conversion of nr_pagetable " Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 09/14] Conversion of nr_dirty " Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 10/14] Conversion of nr_writeback " Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 11/14] Conversion of nr_unstable " Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 12/14] Remove unused get_page_stat functions Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 13/14] Conversion of nr_bounce to per zone counter Christoph Lameter
2006-06-08 23:03 ` [PATCH 14/14] Remove useless writeback structure Christoph Lameter
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