On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:32:03 +0530
Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> Local atomic operations are fast and highly reentrant per CPU counters.
> Used for percpu variable updates. Local atomic operations only guarantee
> variable modification atomicity wrt the CPU which owns the data and
> these needs to
Hi Madhavan,
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Local atomic operations are fast and highly reentrant per CPU counters.
Used for percpu variable updates. Local atomic operations only guarantee
variable modification atomicity wrt the CPU which owns the data and
these needs to be executed in a preemption safe way.
Here is the design of this patch