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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: Rob Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about preempt_disable()
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:31:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312010703.19113@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1070250821.1158.45.camel@localhost>

Hi,

Rob Love wrote:
> Further, on uniprocessor systems, we don't have deadlocks so it is the
> preempt_disable() that actually ensures concurrency is prevented in the
> critical region.
>
We don't have _spin_locks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-08 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-30  0:59 question about preempt_disable() Chris Peterson
2003-11-30 17:39 ` Matthias Urlichs
2003-12-01  3:53   ` Rob Love
2003-12-08 16:31     ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2003-12-03 23:12 ` George Anzinger

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