[ltt-dev] [PATCH] Fix dirty page accounting in redirty_page_for_writepage()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Could you cite a specific example / situation where you'd use __xxx
> ops?

Well the cpu alloc v3 patchset (already cited) included numerous
locations. Sure wish we could move much of the core stats over to percpu
ops. Here is a list of some stats patches that do not need irq disable.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1128
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1132
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1134
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1138
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1139
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1145 VM stats
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1160 NFS stats
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1161 Genhd stats
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1163 Socket inuse counter
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/1164 SRCU