Re: [PATCH 05/17] lib: percpu_count_sum_signed()

[Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:32:43PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:58:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Provide an accurate version of percpu_counter_read.
> > 
> > Should we go and replace the current use of percpu_counter_sum()
> > with percpu_counter_sum_positive(), and call this new primitive
> > percpu_counter_sum() instead?
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/percpu_counter.h |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
> >  lib/percpu_counter.c           |    6 +++---
> >  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/percpu_counter.h	2007-05-23 20:37:54.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu_counter.h	2007-05-23 20:38:09.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -35,7 +35,18 @@ void percpu_counter_destroy(struct percp
> >  void percpu_counter_set(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount);
> >  void __percpu_counter_mod(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s32 amount, s32 batch);
> >  void __percpu_counter_mod64(struct percpu_counter *fbc, s64 amount, s32 batch);
> > -s64 percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc);
> > +s64 __percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc);
> > +
> > +static inline s64 percpu_counter_sum(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
> > +{
> > +	s64 ret = __percpu_counter_sum(fbc);
> > +	return ret < 0 ? 0 : ret;
> 
> max(0, ret) maybe?
> 
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

Ok, replying to email that's more than a month old may not be the best idea
:)

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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