Re: [PATCH 4/7] zram: use atomic operation for stat

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jan 13 2014 - 18:58:20 EST


On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 20:18:59 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some of fields in zram->stats are protected by zram->lock which
> is rather coarse-grained so let's use atomic operation without
> explict locking.

Confused. The patch didn't remove any locking, so it made the code
slower.

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