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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:49:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Why does ia64 not use fetchadd in atomic.h?
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:35:42PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Why not
> 
> #define ia64_atomic_add(__i, __v) ia64_fetchadd(__i, &v->counter, acq)

Because ia64_fetchadd() only supports 8 different constants?