On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 23:27, David S. Miller wrote:
> Why not just use the existing bitops implementation? The code is
> going to be mostly identical, ala:
>
> while (test_and_set_bit(ptr, nr)) {
> while (test_bit(ptr, nr))
> barrier();
> }
Firstly your code is wrong for Intel already
Secondly many platforms want to implement their locks in other ways.
Atomic bitops are an x86 luxury so your proposal simply generates
hideously inefficient code compared to arch specific sanity
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