Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:46:25 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
       ebiederm@xmission.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
       travis@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       steiner@sgi.com, hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: add optimized generic percpu accessors
Message-ID: <20090115184625.GA9944@elte.hu>
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* Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> It is an optimization and a cleanup, and adds the following new
> generic percpu methods:
> 
>   percpu_read()
>   percpu_write()
>   percpu_add()
>   percpu_sub()
>   percpu_and()
>   percpu_or()
>   percpu_xor()

on a second thought ... i just started using this construct in code, and 
promptly typoed it: i typed "per_cpu_read()".

Which is really the more logical name for this. Mind if i do a 
s/percpu/per_cpu/ rename of all of these new APIs?

	Ingo
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