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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: rml@tech9.net, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	riel@conectiva.com.br, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generalized spin_lock_bit
Date: 21 Jul 2002 14:48:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1027259334.16819.98.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020720.183133.67807986.davem@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 02:31, David S. Miller wrote:
> For an asm-generic/bitlock.h implementation it is more than
> fine.  That way we get asm-i386/bitlock.h that does whatever
> it wants to do and the rest of asm-*/bitlock.h includes
> the generic version until the arch maintainer sees fit to
> do otherwise.

For an asm-generic one yes. Although you do need to add a cpu_relax() in
the inner loop

Alan

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      reply	other threads:[~2002-07-21 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-20 20:21 Robert Love
2002-07-20 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 21:15   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-20 21:19     ` Robert Love
2002-07-20 21:20   ` Robert Love
2002-07-20 23:25     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-20 22:27 ` David S. Miller
2002-07-20 22:46   ` Robert Love
2002-07-21  0:26   ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21  1:31     ` David S. Miller
2002-07-21 13:48       ` Alan Cox [this message]

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