On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> +/* Stopping interrupts faster than atomics on many archs (and more
> + easily optimized if they're not) */
> +static inline void bigref_inc(struct bigref *ref)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> + struct bigref_percpu *cpu;
> +
> + local_irq_save(flags);
> + cpu = &ref->ref[smp_processor_id()];
> + if (likely(!cpu->slow_mode))
> + cpu->counter++;
Did you benchmark this? On most UP machines an inc/dec should be cheaper
than irq enable/disable.
bye, Roman
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