Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - char devices for diagnostics and lightweight subnet management | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:20:54 -0800 |
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Bryan> Probably not much. The motivation was to ensure that if it Bryan> got incremented during an iteration, whoever was iterating Bryan> would see the update in a timely fashion.
But as far as I can see, you never do atomic_inc() -- only atomic_set() under a spinlock. - 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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