Hello, Konstantin. On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:09:00PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > bool atomic_add_max(atomic_t *var, int add, int max); > bool atomic_sub_min(atomic_t *var, int sub, int min); > > bool this_cpu_add_max(var, add, max); > bool this_cpu_sub_min(var, sub, min); > > They add/subtract only if result will be not bigger than max/lower that min. > Returns true if operation was done and false otherwise.
If I'm reading the code right, all the above functions do is wrapping the corresponding cmpxchg implementations. Given that most use cases would build further abstractions on top, I'm not sure how useful providing another layer of abstraction is. For the most part, we introduce new per-cpu operations to take advantage of capabilities of underlying hardware which can't be utilized in a different way (like the x86 128bit atomic ops). Thanks. -- tejun
