Re: [PATCH] mm: PageLRU can be non-atomic bit operation

From: Hisashi Hifumi
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 04:13:38 EST



At 11:47 07/04/24, Nick Piggin wrote:

>As Hugh points out, we must have atomic ops here, so changing the generic
>code to use the __ version is wrong. However if there is a faster way that
>i386 can perform the atomic variant, then doing so will speed up the generic
>code without breaking other architectures.
>

Do you mean writing page-flags.h specific for i386 so improving generic code
and without breaking other architectures ?

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