On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > It is useful to know how many charges are still left after a call to > res_counter_uncharge. While it is possible to issue a res_counter_read > after uncharge, this can be racy. > > If we need, for instance, to take some action when the counters drop > down to 0, only one of the callers should see it. This is the same > semantics as the atomic variables in the kernel. > > Since the current return value is void, we don't need to worry about > anything breaking due to this change: nobody relied on that, and only > users appearing from now on will be checking this value. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <[email protected]> > CC: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> > CC: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]> > CC: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
