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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, wensong@linux-vs.org, horms@verge.net.au,
	wjiang@resilience.com, cfriesen@nortel.com, zlynx@acm.org,
	rpjday@mindspring.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:23:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2708.1186737826@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46BB46B2.60808@redhat.com>

Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com> wrote:

> To head off the criticism, I admit this is an oversimplification, and true
> busy-waiters should be using cpu_relax(), which contains a barrier.

Why would you want to use cpu_relax()?  That's there to waste time efficiently,
isn't it?  Shouldn't you be using smp_rmb() or something like that?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-10  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-09 13:41 [PATCH 6/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on frv Chris Snook
2007-08-09 16:54 ` Chris Snook
2007-08-10  9:23   ` David Howells [this message]
2007-08-10 19:54     ` Chris Snook
2007-08-11  0:54       ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-11  0:54         ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-11  4:29         ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-13  5:15           ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-13  6:03             ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-14  5:34               ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-14  7:26                 ` Herbert Xu
2007-08-14 17:01                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-14 22:01                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-14 22:43                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-15 13:29                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-08-15 15:06                         ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-15 13:30                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-15 20:15                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-16  1:09                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-16  2:27                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-11  8:47       ` David Howells
2007-08-13  6:44         ` Chris Snook
2007-08-14  5:42           ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-15 18:51             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-15 19:18               ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-15 19:46                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-15 19:59                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-15 20:13                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-15 20:38                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-08-15 21:15                         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-16  1:20                           ` Nick Piggin

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