From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Virtual frame buffer: user space backend
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:35:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AEFDDE.3070504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d8eece20607071550i7fcc98d7o634db68ec6d25b9c@mail.gmail.com>
Christian Limpach wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>> Instead of switching bitmaps, why not
>> just have the backend and frontend share a bitmap and do atomic get/sets
>> on it?
>
> Because we'd like to avoid atomic operations.
Atomic should not be needed. Just synchronized access, ie.
no unexpected behaviour and proper read/write smp barriers.
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-08 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-26 13:38 [PATCH 0/2] Virtual frame buffer Markus Armbruster
2006-06-26 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] Virtual frame buffer: frontend Markus Armbruster
2006-07-07 7:18 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-07 16:45 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-10 7:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-10 10:57 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-10 18:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-26 20:28 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-27 5:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-27 7:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-08-04 8:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-08-04 8:34 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-28 13:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-08-04 7:54 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-06-26 13:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] Virtual frame buffer: user space backend Markus Armbruster
2006-07-07 7:18 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-28 15:55 ` Laurent Vivier
2006-08-04 7:57 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-07 16:57 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-07 17:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-07-07 18:33 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-07 18:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-07-07 22:50 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-07 23:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-07-08 1:10 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-08 1:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-07-08 10:20 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-08 0:35 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2006-07-08 1:38 ` Christian Limpach
2006-07-10 7:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-10 18:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2006-07-07 7:17 ` [PATCH 0/2] Virtual frame buffer Markus Armbruster
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