Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750857AbWCIIPT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:15:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750918AbWCIIPS (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:15:18 -0500 Received: from smtp106.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.216]:52314 "HELO smtp106.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750845AbWCIIPR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:15:17 -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=5HeB4pDLvP9lNSJK18BzCEtghOQLQMTZQbw8gcFyrOW0WOCWS2DvV1Ol5bjMj2igjzOL+0nv/FL5cJwsYI4fQVf9ylLduKYNycakQF2SGBV7akQQlWjF4LG1P2yWsmIWFESirh9ZoBd89AUQC1Y4gqf/1VXlbHaj1BJXGGoUIhM= ; Message-ID: <440FE3E2.1060307@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:14:26 +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: Ravikiran G Thirumalai CC: Andrew Morton , bcrl@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shai@scalex86.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add percpu_counter_mod_bh References: <20060307181301.4dd6aa96.akpm@osdl.org> <20060308202656.GA4493@localhost.localdomain> <20060308203642.GZ5410@kvack.org> <20060308210726.GD4493@localhost.localdomain> <20060308211733.GA5410@kvack.org> <20060308222528.GE4493@localhost.localdomain> <20060308224140.GC5410@kvack.org> <20060308154321.0e779111.akpm@osdl.org> <20060309001803.GF4493@localhost.localdomain> <20060308163258.36f3bd79.akpm@osdl.org> <20060309080651.GA3599@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060309080651.GA3599@localhost.localdomain> 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: 728 Lines: 20 Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > Here's a patch making x86_64 local_t to 64 bits like other 64 bit arches. > This keeps local_t unsigned long. (We can change it to signed value > along with other arches later in one go I guess) > Why not just keep naming and structure of interfaces consistent with atomic_t? That would be signed and 32-bit. You then also have a local64_t. -- 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/