On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:50:12PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_sync() schedules the switch > to atomic mode, then waits for it to complete. > > Also export percpu_ref_switch_to_* so they can be used from modules. > > This will be used in md/raid to count the number of pending write > requests to an array. > We occasionally need to check if the count is zero, but most often > we don't care. > We always want updates to the counter to be fast, as in some cases > we count every 4K page. > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Please feel free to route through other patches through md tree. If preferable, I can route it through percpu/for-4.12. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
