Using per cpu atomics for the vm statistics reduces their overhead. And in the case of x86 we are guaranteed that they will never race even in the lax form used for vm statistics. Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- include/linux/vmstat.h | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/vmstat.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/vmstat.h 2009-08-14 10:07:18.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/vmstat.h 2009-09-01 14:59:22.000000000 -0500 @@ -76,24 +76,22 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vm_event_state, v static inline void __count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item) { - __get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]++; + __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]); } static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item) { - get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]++; - put_cpu(); + this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item]); } static inline void __count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta) { - __get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item] += delta; + __this_cpu_add(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item], delta); } static inline void count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta) { - get_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item] += delta; - put_cpu(); + this_cpu_add(per_cpu_var(vm_event_states).event[item], delta); } extern void all_vm_events(unsigned long *); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/