Re: Why Semaphore Hardware-Dependent?

[Nick Piggin]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
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> > Comments?
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> You only support 64k waiters. We have had cases of software failing 
> because more than 64k readers were waiting.

Oh really? OK I figured if ppc64 was OK then that would be enough,
but your large Altix systems did slip my mind.

That is a fair criticism... atomic_long it will have to be, then.
That will require a bit of atomic work to get atomic64_cmpxchg
available on all 64-bit architectures.

> Please sent patches inline in order for us to be able to comment.

OK I will for next patchset.

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