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On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > 4. re-implement locks for the 80386 case. > > I like this one, but a simpler way : don't support SMP in this case, so that > we won't have to play with locks. This would lead to something like this : Linux uses this locking mechanism to coordinate shared access to hardware registers with embedded controllers, which is true also on uniprocessors too. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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