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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: add design document
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:46:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A31CF8C.6060609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244776417.5320.160.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com>

Huang Ying wrote:
> 
> Yes. It seems that ARM is OK after FIQ save/restore issue is fixed.
> Another machine with NMI but no NMI-safe cmpxchg is "real" 386. That is
> very old machine, does that matter?
> 

Well, we still support it (UP only, though.)  It all depends on if there
is a fallback that is good enough.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-10 19:53 [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL][for 2.6.32] lockless ring buffer Steven Rostedt
2009-06-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/3] ring-buffer: make the buffer a true circular link list Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11  1:12   ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-06-11  2:00     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11  3:25       ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-06-11  3:35         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] ring-buffer: make lockless Steven Rostedt
2009-06-10 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: add design document Steven Rostedt
2009-06-10 22:13   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-11  1:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11  3:51       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-11  3:59         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-11  4:15           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11 18:09             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-11  0:51   ` Huang Ying
2009-06-11  0:54     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-11  1:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-11  2:33       ` Huang Ying
2009-06-11  2:38         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-06-12  3:13           ` Huang Ying
2009-06-12  3:46             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-06-11  3:15   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2009-06-11  3:25     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-13  1:54   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-13  2:16     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-13 22:36       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-14 12:39         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-06-15  0:05           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-15  0:56   ` Frederic Weisbecker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-08 20:13 [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL] rebase of lockless ring buffer Steven Rostedt
2009-07-08 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] ring-buffer: add design document Steven Rostedt

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