Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it

[Russell King]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:43:09AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote:
> 
> > You're advocating cmpxchg is adopted by all architectures.  It isn't
> > available on many architectures, and those which it can be requires
> > unnecessarily complicated coding.
> 
> Not having cmpxchg is even worse because it requires the introduction and 
> maintenance of large sets of arch specific operations. Much more complex.

And which bit of "not available on many architectures" have you not grasped
yet?

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Russell King
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