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Quoting r. Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>: > On Feb 12, 2006, at 02:50, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >Basically, its as Andrew said: the lock around clear_bit is there > >to ensure that ipoib_mcast_send isnt running already when we stop > >the thread. Thats why test_bit has to be inside the lock, too.> > Looks like you guys could use nonatomic versions to improve bus > efficiency slightly I think we need atomics since other places touch bits in the same word without taking the lock. -- Michael S. Tsirkin Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies - 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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