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From: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: userspace spinlocks
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:17:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001030151736.C2687@paradigm.rfc822.org> (raw)

Hi,
while compiling db2 i got the configure warning "spinlocks not implemented
for this compiler/architecture" - I guess as we do not currently have
SMP machines (except the ones ralf is working on) we dont have a problem,
but how should the spinlocks be implemented ?

I mean - normally "ll" and "sc" are needed - But those are not
available on R3000 - And spinning in an ll/sc loop and emulating
them with exceptions isnt that fast.

OTOH - Where are they normally implemented ? libc ? macro ? Could
there be a runtime linking thing with a cpu detection wether we 
have ll/sc or not ?

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                  flo@rfc822.org             +49-5201-669912
     Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?

             reply	other threads:[~2000-10-30 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-30 14:17 Florian Lohoff [this message]
2000-10-30 17:51 ` userspace spinlocks Jun Sun
2000-10-31 20:14   ` Ralf Baechle
2000-10-31 22:01     ` Jun Sun
2000-11-01  6:50       ` Mike Klar
2000-11-01  6:50         ` Mike Klar
2000-11-01 13:36         ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-01 16:40           ` Mike Klar
2000-11-01 16:40             ` Mike Klar
2000-11-01  9:09     ` Florian Lohoff
2000-10-31 18:22 ` Ralf Baechle

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