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Re: [PATCH 1/13] BC: atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() helper [message #8223 is a reply to message #8221]

Fri, 10 November 2006 16:40

dev
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Registered: September 2005
Location: Moscow

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> Hello Kirill, Hello Pavel,
>
> Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
>>Oleg Nesterov noticed to me that the construction like
>>(used in beancounter patches and free_uid()):
>>
>> local_irq_save(flags);
>> if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&refcnt, &lock))
>> ...
>>
>>is not that good for preemtible kernels, since with preemption
>>spin_lock() can schedule() to reduce latency. However, it won't schedule
>>if interrupts are disabled.
>>
>>So this patch introduces atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() as a logical
>>counterpart to atomic_dec_and_lock().
>
>
> You should probably send that one independently from the BC
> patchset.
Maybe, but BCs are the only user of this so far...

Thanks,
Kirill

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		BC: resource beancounters (v6) (with userpages reclamation + configfs) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:42
		[PATCH 1/13] BC: atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() helper By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:47
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] BC: atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() helper By: Cedric Le Goater on Fri, 10 November 2006 15:19
		Re: [PATCH 1/13] BC: atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() helper By: dev on Fri, 10 November 2006 16:40
		[PATCH 2/13] BC: Kconfig and Makefile By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:47
		[PATCH 3/13] BC: beancounters core and API By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:49
		[PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:51
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Paul Menage on Thu, 23 November 2006 07:48
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 23 November 2006 08:35
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Paul Menage on Thu, 23 November 2006 08:53
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 23 November 2006 09:20
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Paul Menage on Thu, 23 November 2006 09:31
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 23 November 2006 09:56
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Paul Menage on Thu, 23 November 2006 10:18
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Thu, 23 November 2006 10:45
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Fri, 24 November 2006 10:10
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Paul Menage on Sat, 25 November 2006 00:09
		Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling By: Pavel Emelianov on Mon, 27 November 2006 08:27
		[PATCH 5/13] BC: configfs interface By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:52
		[PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:53
		Re: [PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: Paul Jackson on Thu, 09 November 2006 19:05
		Re: [PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: Pekka Enberg on Fri, 10 November 2006 22:50
		Re: [PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: Pekka Enberg on Fri, 10 November 2006 22:46
		Re: [PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: Pavel Emelianov on Mon, 13 November 2006 12:13
		Re: [PATCH 6/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (core) By: Pavel Machek on Sat, 11 November 2006 05:50
		[PATCH 7/13] BC: kmemsize accounting (hooks) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:54
		[PATCH 8/13] BC: privvmpages accounting (core) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:56
		[PATCH 9/13] BC: privvmpages accounting (hooks) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:57
		[PATCH 10/13] BC: physpages accounting (core) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 16:59
		[PATCH 11/13] BC: physpages accounting (hooks) By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 17:01
		[PATCH 12/13] BC: numtasks accounting By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 17:02
		[PATCH 13/13] BC: numfiles accounting By: dev on Thu, 09 November 2006 17:03
		Re: BC: resource beancounters (v6) (with userpages reclamation + configfs) By: Herbert Poetzl on Sun, 19 November 2006 19:41

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