Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:39:37 +1000 |
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In message <20011009091101.A27319@twiddle.net> you write: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I don't *like* making Alpha's wmb() stronger, but it is the > > only solution which doesn't touch common code. > > It's not a "solution" at all. It's so heavy weight you'd be > much better off with locks. Just use the damned rmb_me_harder.
Wow! I'm glad you're volunteering to audit all the kernel code to fix this Alpha-specific bug by inserting rmb_me_harder() in all the critical locations!
Don't miss any!
I look forward to seeing your patch, Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK - 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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