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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:54:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: mm->mmap_sem
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Hi,

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:17:01 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons
<jsimmons@edgeglobal.com> said:

> Yikes. I think the best solution is to just put the process that owns
> the framebuffer to be put to sleep just before accel engine access. Wake
> it up once its done. 

On SMP, that still requires inter-CPU interrupts to all processors in
the worst case, as the process may already be running elsewhere.  It
doesn't get around the IPI cost.

--Stephen
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