On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> This patch against 2.4.0-test5-pre2 :-
>
> (1) Changes nmi_counter from atomic_t to unsigned int. nmi_counter is
> per cpu and is only updated from the owning cpu. There is no need
> for it to be atomic, [...]
yep.
> [...] the lock prefix just slows things down,
> especially with the NMI oopser going.
no real (visible) slowdown there - the code is run at most HZ times per
second per CPU.
> Any objections before I send it to Linus?
no objections at all.
Ingo
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