Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Karim Yaghmour]

Hello Chistoph,

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The thing I'm unhappy with is what the code does currently.  I haven't
> looked at the code enough nor through about the problem enough to tell
> you what's the right thing to do.  Knowing that will involve review of
> the architecture and serious benchmarking on a few plattforms.

Like I was saying elswhere, we are likely going to drop the lockless
code for now (i.e. the code that does the cmpxchg). Instead we will
depend on normal cli/sti abstractions.

Karim
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