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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: James Simmons <jsimmons@edgeglobal.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: accel handling
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:44:17 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <14282.24705.733807.970163@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908292111230.31607-100000@imperial.edgeglobal.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:14:11 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

>> A combination of shared-memory spinlocks (for fast tight-loop locking)
>> and SysV semaphores (for a blocking lock if the lock is taken for too
>> long) can be combined to give a simple but very efficient locking engine
>> for this type of thing.

> Any docs on this stuff. How would I go about do this ? I really want to do
> this write. 

There are spinlock primitives in linux/asm/spinlock.h, and the
underlying atomic bit operations are in linux/asm/bitops.h.  man shmop
and man semop for information about SysV shared memory and semaphores.

--Stephen

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-30 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-08-29 14:52 James Simmons
1999-08-29 16:14 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30  1:14   ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 10:44     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
1999-08-30 12:06   ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-08-30 14:18     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 14:50       ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 15:52         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 17:51           ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 20:27             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-31  0:28       ` Vladimir Dergachev
1999-08-31 10:55         ` Marcus Sundberg
1999-08-31 12:49           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-31 17:10             ` James Simmons
1999-08-31 18:44               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-30 14:31     ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 18:51       ` Eric W. Biederman
1999-08-30 19:18         ` James Simmons
1999-08-30 21:39           ` Andreas Beck
1999-08-30 20:36         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-08-29 14:57 James Simmons
1999-08-31  3:39 Jens Owen
1999-08-31 12:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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