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Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:46:31 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk> Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 à 12:39 -0700, Andrew Morton a écrit : > Ah. I wasn't able to see much duplicated code at all, so I wasn't sure > that we needed to bother about this issue. > > yup, atomic_inc_not_zero() looks like a candidate. yes, and atomic_add_unless()... > > > [PATCH v3] atomic: add atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() > > Let's go with this for now ;) > > I'll assume that you intend to make use of this function soon, and it > looks safe enough to sneak it into 2.6.37-rc2, IMO. If Linus shouts at > me then we could merge it into 2.6.38-rc1 via net-next, but I think > straight-to-mainline is best. > Well, I dont expect using it before 2.6.38, no hurry Andrew, but it probably can be merged before, since it has no user yet. It'll help our job for sure. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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