On 06/06/2013 06:48 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:45:09 +1000 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew, if you want to push the changes back to generic per-cpu
>> counters through to Linus, then I'll write the patches for you.  But
>> - and this is a big but - I'll only do this if you are going to deal
>> with the "performance trumps all other concerns" fanatics over
>> whether it should be merged or not. I have better things to do
>> with my time have a flamewar over trivial details like this.
> 
> Please view my comments as a critique of the changelog, not of the code. 
> 
> There are presumably good (but undisclosed) reasons for going this way,
> but this question is so bleeding obvious that the decision should have
> been addressed up-front and in good detail.
> 
> And, preferably, with benchmark numbers.  Because it might have been
> the wrong decision - stranger things have happened.
> 

I have folded the attached patch here. Let me know if it still needs
more love.