On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:41 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > OK, here is a new clean patch that address this problem (nothing assumed > about > atomics) >
Would you just be able to add the atomic sysctl handler that Christoph suggested? This introduces lost update problems. 2 CPUs may store to nr_files in the opposite order that they incremented atomic_nr_files. It is not terribly bad, because the drift is not cumulative and the field can't go negative... but its just ugly to add this hack because there is no atomic sysctl handler. Eliminating the cli/sti is a good idea though, I think. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
