On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:40:25 -0700 (PDT) > > > Nothing as far as I can tell. The main benefit may be reorganization of > > the code. > > You told us way back in the original thread that the final atomic dec > shows up very much on NUMA, and if it could be avoided (and changed > into a read test), it would help a lot on NUMA. No I told you that we need to disassemble the atomic dec_and_test in order to be able to split the counters. > > Yes and it was recently changed. Typical use is linux-xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx is what used to be the place for networking > stuff, it's not netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx s/not/now/ right? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
