Re: [patch v2 0/5] percpu_counter: bug fix and enhancement

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:02:15AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > I don't think @maxfuzzy is necessary there.  I wrote this before but
> > why can't we track the actual deviation instead of the number of
> > deviation events?
> 
> Thats roughly same thing (BATCH multiplicator factor apart)
> 
> Most percpu_counter users for a given percpu_counter object use a given
> BATCH, dont they ?

Well, @maxfuzzy is much harder than @batch.  It's way less intuitive.
Although I haven't really thought about it that much, I think it might
be possible to eliminate it.  Maybe I'm confused.  I'll take another
look later but if someone can think of something, please jump right
in.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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