Re: [RFC local_t removal V1 1/4] Add add_local() andadd_local_return()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> The problem I see here is that with ~5-6 operations, we will end up
> having 20*5 = 100 headers only for this. Can we combine these in a
> single header file instead ? local.h wasn't bad in this respect.

We could actually keep local.h and just thin it out a bit. Get rid of the
local_t type and use long instead? Then make the local_inc/local_add work
on an arbitrary scalar like cmpxchg_local?

> Also, separating all these in sub-files will make it a bit difficult to
> pinpoint errors that would arise from using a bad combination of, e.g.
> generic add with a non-protected read or set.

Yes surely I dont want many files. I thought about adding

#define inc_local(x) add_local(x, 1)

etc to add-local.h

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