Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:01:45 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] break_lock forever broken |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > >>as I said, since the cacheline just got dirtied, the write is just >>half a cycle which is so much in the noise that it really doesn't >>matter. > > > ok - the patch below is a small modification of Hugh's so that we clear > ->break_lock unconditionally. Since this code is not inlined it ought to > have minimal icache impact too. >
Fine by me.
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