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From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>
To: dje@watson.ibm.com
Cc: eek@escape.ca, drow@false.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: DB_THREAD support in Berkeley DB/glibc
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 16:54:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199912290054.QAA13250@localhost.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199912290015.TAA24316@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> (message from David Edelsohn on Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:15:59 -0500)


> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:15:59 -0500
> From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>

You were right about sync being slower than isync.  I expect
the difference is caused by sync needing to perform bus operations
where isync does not.

Anyway, they're not substitutes for each other; they do different
things, and in a given situation only one (or, possibly, both in
sequence) will be right.

> 	If you only are using the TSL_UNSET in the context that one
> already has the lock, then the lwarx/stwcx are unnecessary.  What you have
> written, however, is not a general atomic clear macro.

How is it not atomic?

The PUM says "With the exception of double-precision floating-point
accesses on 32-bit implementations, all aligned accesses are atomic."

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-29  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-27  3:04 DB_THREAD support in Berkeley DB/glibc Troy Benjegerdes
1999-12-28  7:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-12-28 17:53   ` Joel Klecker
1999-12-28 19:02     ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 21:22       ` BenH
1999-12-28 22:05       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-12-28 22:28         ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 23:21           ` Tony Mantler
1999-12-29  0:15             ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-29  0:54               ` Geoff Keating [this message]
1999-12-29  1:01                 ` David Edelsohn
1999-12-28 23:52           ` Geoff Keating
1999-12-29  0:21             ` David Edelsohn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-05-10 23:59 imac of booting Ben Martz
1999-05-11  8:36 ` Joel Klecker
1999-05-11 15:22   ` David Edelsohn
1999-05-11 16:47     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-05-11 17:44     ` Anyone playing with Darwin 0.2 binary yet? Kevin B. Hendricks
1999-05-11 18:47       ` Nathan Ingersoll
1999-05-11 21:00         ` Roger Ivie
1999-05-11 22:15           ` David A. Gatwood
     [not found]         ` <v04011701b35e71c158ed@[199.174.98.46]>
1999-05-12 14:50           ` New PPC/Mac features of 2.2.8? Jason Haas
1999-05-12 18:21             ` Matt Porter
1999-05-12 19:41             ` Tom Rini

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