Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops

From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
Date: Sat Feb 23 2002 - 17:43:55 EST


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:00:04PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:06:48PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
>
> > With preemption this turns into a problem that is easier to solve
> > with a lock or by not having per-cpu caches in the first place --
>
> whilst you're correct (pre-emption has made everything harder), there's
> not much point moaning about it, since it's in linus' kernel now. So
> why bother ?
>

everyone needs a hobby.

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