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Message-ID: <20140114001935.GW1992@bbox>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:19:35 +0900
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] zram: use atomic operation for stat
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 03:58:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:18:59 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > Some of fields in zram->stats are protected by zram->lock which
> > is rather coarse-grained so let's use atomic operation without
> > explict locking.
>
> Confused. The patch didn't remove any locking, so it made the code
> slower.
True but it could make remove dependency of zram->lock for 32bit stat
so further patches can remove messy code and enhance write performance.
So, it's preparing patch for further step.
Should I rewrite the description to explain this?
>
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