Re: [BK tree] [drm] remove counter macros..

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 07:29:01 EST


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> Well this was only a direct macro removal,

Sure, and I really like the patch. But seeing code posted is the best
place for further suggestions in that area.

> I'm contemplating removing the
> counters as to be honest I'm not sure any drm developer as actually used
> them since day one .. (and maybe not even then)... but I'll leave that for
> another time, as there might be a wierd use of them somewhere...

Sounds like a good idea. Especially as dev->counts are atomic_ts that are
rather expensive.

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