On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Josh Cartwright wrote: > Although, I'm wondering how exact these statistics need to be. Is > making them preemption safe even a concern? Not sure about that. You solution makes it preempt safe. If is can be tolerated that its racy then raw_cpu_inc() could be used. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>