Re: Poll about irqsafe_cpu_add and others

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> When we know we run from BH context, we can use __this_cpu_inc(), but if
> we dont know or run from user/process context, we would need irqsafe_inc
> variant.

If the BH context is the only one where we care about performance then its
ok I would think.
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