Re: [PATCH 01/14] Per zone counter functionality

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> There's no need for an atomic op - at the most the architecture would need
> local_irq_disable() protection, and that's only if it doesn't have an
> atomic-wrt-this-cpu add instruction.

So I can drop the VM_STATS() definitions?

> > Right thought about that one as well. Can we stablize this first before I 
> > do another big reorg?
> 
> That's unfortunate patch ordering.  Do it (much) later I guess.

Well there are a couple of trailing issues that would have to be resolved 
before that happens. I have another patchset here that does something more 
to the remaining counters.


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