From: "BALBIR SINGH" <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Kirill Ratkin <kratkin@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No locking is needed ... why?
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:15:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC2FF97.4090204@wipro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0110091036530.2847-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
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>Each CPU has its own data structure here. This means no
>other CPU will touch this queue (they have their own)
>so there is nobody we could ever race against.
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We would still require locking or interrupt disabling if this data is used
from an interrupt context (due to re-enterency issues), wouldn't we Rik?
Regards,
Balbir
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>regards,
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>Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-09 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 13:00 [PATCH] again: Re: Athlon kernel crash (i686 works) Bryan Mayland
2001-10-09 13:13 ` No locking is needed ... why? Kirill Ratkin
2001-10-09 13:30 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 13:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-09 13:45 ` BALBIR SINGH [this message]
2001-10-09 13:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-09 14:28 ` [PATCH] again: Re: Athlon kernel crash (i686 works) Bill Davidsen
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