[PATCH] elevator: define ioc counting mechanism
authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:37:43 +0000 (15:37 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk>
Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:29:36 +0000 (20:29 +0200)
None of the in-kernel primitives for handling "atomic" counting seem
to be a good fit. We need something that is essentially free for
incrementing/decrementing, while the read side may be more expensive
as we only ever need to do that when a device is removed from the
kernel.

Use a per-cpu variable for maintaining a per-cpu ioc count and define
a reading mechanism that just sums up the values.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

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