From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] atomic: dec_and_lock use cmpxchg
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:52:08 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43285538.1090709@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050914.092441.87955714.davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller wrote:
> I talked to Linus about my patch and he made the good point that the
> Alpha optimization is very valid (it avoids loading the GP and other
> stuff by doing that fancy assembler entry point). So we decided that
> we'd make the cmpxchg() generic version, but make moving over to that
> gradual instead of mandatorily forcing everyone to use the new thing.
>
> So, for example, we'd convert sparc64 (because I want to) and the
> architectures using the exact same ppc64 C code, but leave the others
> alone. It'd be up to the remaining platform's maintainers to move
> over if they wanted to.
>
> I'll submit that updated patch to him later today.
>
OK that's fair enough. I'll submit whatever cleanups are possible
on top of your patch after the atomic_cmpxchg patch goes in (if
it goes in). Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 14:48 [PATCH 1/5] atomic: introduce atomic_cmpxchg Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 14:49 ` [PATCH 2/5] atomic: introduce atomic_inc_not_zero Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 14:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] rcu file: use atomic primitives Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/5] atomic: dec_and_lock use cmpxchg Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 15:01 ` [PATCH 5/5] remove HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 16:31 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 16:49 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 17:59 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-14 22:03 ` Russell King
2005-09-14 22:26 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-15 7:10 ` Russell King
2005-09-15 13:08 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-14 15:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] atomic: dec_and_lock use cmpxchg Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 16:24 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-14 16:52 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-09-17 0:05 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-14 16:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] atomic: introduce atomic_inc_not_zero Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 16:44 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 17:04 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-14 17:18 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 22:00 ` Russell King
2005-09-14 22:10 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-14 22:21 ` Russell King
2005-09-15 1:51 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-17 1:15 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-17 6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-17 10:01 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-17 7:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-17 7:34 ` Dipankar Sarma
2005-09-18 8:08 ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-17 0:59 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-17 7:18 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-17 7:27 ` Russell King
2005-09-18 6:03 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-14 15:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] atomic: introduce atomic_cmpxchg Russell King
2005-09-14 15:22 ` Nick Piggin
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