On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> What about this other one, it looks like multiple threads can
> manipulate tsk->min_flt++; at the same time in faultin_page()
Yeah, maybe we could have some model for marking "this is statistics,
doesn't need to be exact".
> Should we not care, or should we mirror min_flt with a second
> atomic_long_t, or simply convert min_flt to atomic_long_t ?
Definitely not make it atomic. Those are expensive, and there's no point.
Linus
