Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:33:58 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/10] local_t : adding and standardising atomic primitives |
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Hi!
> These patches extend and standardise local_t operations on each architectures, > allowing a rich set of atomic operations to be done on per-cpu data with > minimal performance impact. On some architectures, there seems to be no > difference between the SMP and UP operation (same memory barriers, same > LOCking), local.h simply includes asm-generic/local.h, which removes duplicated > code.
Could you provide some Documentation/? Knowing when local_t can be used is kind-of important. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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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