From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: 'James Bottomley' <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
'Alan Cox' <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
'SCSI Mailing List' <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
marcelo@conectiva.com.br, dougg@torque.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21 fix race condition in sg.c
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:00:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030627150002.GA22378@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002a01c33cbc$5e45d960$e0019d89@cybernetics.com>
Personally, I advocate the KISS approach:
if it's an SMP race where you find yourself thinking about memory
barriers, you should probably just go ahead and use a spinlock :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-27 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-27 13:52 [PATCH] 2.4.21 fix race condition in sg.c Tony Battersby
2003-06-27 14:10 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-27 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-27 14:47 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-27 14:57 ` Tony Battersby
2003-06-27 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-06-27 15:11 ` James Bottomley
2003-06-27 15:38 ` Tony Battersby
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2003-06-26 15:18 Tony Battersby
2003-06-26 22:15 ` Douglas Gilbert
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