| | From | David Howells <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation | | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:54:49 +0000 |
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> We have atomic_cmpxchg. Can you use that for a sufficient generic > implementation?
No. CMPXCHG/CAS is not as available as XCHG, and it's also unnecessary.
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