Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932278AbWACNV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:21:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932280AbWACNV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:21:59 -0500 Received: from smtp105.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.238]:38768 "HELO smtp105.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932278AbWACNV6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 08:21:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ACicSMEqUIchs3IpiL96NvW8wfvoO4veUWCIDVahdqSz0oeFnNJes4sTAj05luc3sLLeNC6HusH6aBq6nLkupOAQdcAuxRl4B26qBh8QI/r2Z+Ls/ImZzVI8nHit4+G4Okj/MM7t1lSLqvtmAPeNrZwJ0tM/fdzV+tUhnn+LxuM= ; Message-ID: <43BA7A73.6070407@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:21:55 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: Christoph Lameter , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC] Event counters [1/3]: Basic counter functionality References: <20051220235733.30925.55642.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20051231064615.GB11069@dmt.cnet> <43B63931.6000307@yahoo.com.au> <20051231202602.GC3903@dmt.cnet> <20060102214016.GA13905@dmt.cnet> <1136265106.5261.34.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20060103101106.GA3435@dmt.cnet> In-Reply-To: <20060103101106.GA3435@dmt.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 30 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:11:46PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I guess I was hoping to try to keep it simple, and just have two >>variants, the __ version would require the caller to do the locking. > > > I see - one point is that the two/three underscore versions make > it clear that preempt is required, though, but it might be a bit > over-complicated as you say. > > Well, its up to you - please rearrange the patch as you wish and merge > up? > OK I will push it upstream - thanks! We can revisit details again when some smoke clears from the coming 2.6.16 merge cycle? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/