Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:01:38 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC paul/rcu/srcu] srcu: only increase the upper bit for srcu_read_lock() |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 04:39:15PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 13:26 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Make that without underflow -- one increment and 2^31+1 decrements would > > in fact return the counter to its original value, but that would require > > cramming more than two billion tasks into a 32-bit address space, which > > I believe to be sufficiently unlikely. (Famous last words...) > > I'll just expect to see you as President of the United States, counting > your money you won in the lottery, and being awarded a Nobel Prize for > curing cancer.
Those possibilities also seem to me to be sufficiently unlikely. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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