Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:16:47 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] atomic: introduce atomic_inc_not_zero |
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Hi,
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Also needs work on those same architectures. Other architectures > might want to look at providing a more optimal implementation.
IMO a rather pointless primitive, unless there is a cpu architecture which has a inc_not_zero instruction, otherwise it will always be the same as using cmpxchg.
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