dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
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 Index: linux/kernel/rcu/tree.c

Re: dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
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

Re: dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
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

dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
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 Index:

Re: dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-04 Thread Paul E. McKenney
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

Re: dynticks: Remove atomic ops for dynticks_idle

2014-09-04 Thread Paul E. McKenney
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