linux-kernel - Re: + atomic-improve-atomic_inc_unless_negative-atomic_dec_unless

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:56:58 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: +
 atomic-improve-atomic_inc_unless_negative-atomic_dec_unless_positive .patch
 added to -mm tree

On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 19:30 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> To me, it would be better to kill atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() or unify
> unify it with atomic_inc_not_zero(). But this is another story.

git is your friend.

I suggest you read 3f9d35b9514 changelog before killing it, thanks.



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