Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:20:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
        Linux Driver Project <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] Use percpu stats
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> -static void zram_stat_inc(u32 *v)
> +static void zram_add_stat(struct zram *zram,
> +			enum zram_stats_index idx, s64 val)
>  {
> -	*v = *v + 1;
> +	struct zram_stats_cpu *stats;
> +
> +	preempt_disable();
> +	stats = __this_cpu_ptr(zram->stats);
> +	u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->syncp);
> +	stats->count[idx] += val;
> +	u64_stats_update_end(&stats->syncp);
> +	preempt_enable();

Maybe do

#define zram_add_stat(zram, index, val)
		this_cpu_add(zram->stats->count[index], val)

instead? It creates an add in a single "atomic" per cpu instruction and
deals with the fallback scenarios for processors that cannot handle 64
bit adds.

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