Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] lockless pagecache 2/7

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 07:44:24 EST


On Gwe, 2005-09-02 at 16:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 2/7
> Implement atomic_cmpxchg for i386 and ppc64. Is there any
> architecture that won't be able to implement such an operation?

i386, sun4c, ....

Yeah quite a few. I suspect most MIPS also would have a problem in this
area.

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