On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:18:31AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > This is on top of the first patch (but still not against your tree). I > > wonder what you think about this one. No special operations. > > > > > > Since dynticks_idle is only ever modified by the local cpu we do > > not need to use atomics there. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> > > Sorry, as discussed earlier, this change is non-trivial. In addition, > you have not justified the change.
The rationale is quite clear: Use of atomics without the need to use them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
