From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: BALBIR SINGH <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] I still see people using cli()
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:49:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008084950.B16204@hq2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC1B831.1060601@wipro.com>
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:59:05PM +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
> BTW, that brings me to another issue, once the kernel becomes preemptibel, what
> are the locking issues? how are semaphores and spin-locks affected? Has anybody
> defined or come up with the rules/document yet?
IF the kernel becomes preemptible it will be so slow, so buggy, and so painful
to maintain, that those issues won't matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-08 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-08 14:29 [RFC] I still see people using cli() BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-08 14:49 ` Victor Yodaiken [this message]
2001-10-08 15:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-08 15:42 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-10-08 16:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-08 17:12 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-10-08 19:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-08 19:42 ` Victor Yodaiken
2001-10-08 18:11 ` george anzinger
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