Hello Chistoph, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The thing I'm unhappy with is what the code does currently. I haven't > looked at the code enough nor through about the problem enough to tell > you what's the right thing to do. Knowing that will involve review of > the architecture and serious benchmarking on a few plattforms.
Like I was saying elswhere, we are likely going to drop the lockless code for now (i.e. the code that does the cmpxchg). Instead we will depend on normal cli/sti abstractions. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
