linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement

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Date:	Thu, 12 May 2011 11:02:15 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"cl@...ux.com" <cl@...ux.com>,
	"npiggin@...nel.dk" <npiggin@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement

Le jeudi 12 mai 2011 à 10:59 +0200, Tejun Heo a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:55:20PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > sure, but it's quite difficult to determine a @maxfuzzy in his proposal
> > I thought (and could confuse user), did I miss anything?
> 
> I don't think @maxfuzzy is necessary there.  I wrote this before but
> why can't we track the actual deviation instead of the number of
> deviation events?
> 

Thats roughly same thing (BATCH multiplicator factor apart)

Most percpu_counter users for a given percpu_counter object use a given
BATCH, dont they ?



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