[ovs-dev] [PATCH 4/9] net: openvswitch: use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper
Shan Wei
shanwei88 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 14:22:30 UTC 2012
Christoph Lameter said, at 2012/11/3 1:46:
>> u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->sync);
>> stats->tx_packets++;
>
> Use this_cpu_inc(vport->percpu_stats->packets) here?
Lots of network drivers use u64_stats_sync infrastructure for statistics
on 32bit or 64bit hosts no matter how many members in per-cpu variable.
keep them be consistent, so no plan to change them.
Thanks
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