On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:41:08PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Considering that local_t has been broken so that basically nobody
> is using it, now is a great time to rethink the types before it
> gets fixed and people start using it.
I'm starting to get more concerned as the per-cpu changes that keep adding
more overhead is getting out of hand.
> And modelling the type on the atomic types would make the most
> sense because everyone already knows them.
Except that the usage models are different; local_t is most likely to be
used for cpu local statistics or for sequences, where making them signed
is a bit backwards.
-ben
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