Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:15:10 -0600 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: fairsched + O(1) process scheduler |
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Robert Love wrote:
>Yep. Everyone architecture I know of - and certainly all that Linux >support - can do atomic read/writes to a word. Thinking about it, it >would be odd if not (two writes to a single word interleaving?). There >are places this assumption is used. > I believe this is true if the data is aligned. I don't think it's true for unaligned access on an x86.
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