Hi Sebastian, On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 5:59 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Okay, I'll do that then, and then in the process get rid of the > > cmpxchg loop since it's no longer required. > > So the only reason why we have that atomic_t is for rare case where run > on the remote CPU and need to remove the upper bit in the counter? Yes. That's the only remaining reason. Annoying, but whatareyagonnado? Jason