Re: [PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: add design document

[H. Peter Anvin]

Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> Yes. It seems that ARM is OK after FIQ save/restore issue is fixed.
> Another machine with NMI but no NMI-safe cmpxchg is "real" 386. That is
> very old machine, does that matter?
> 

Well, we still support it (UP only, though.)  It all depends on if there
is a fallback that is good enough.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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