From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: userspace spinlocks
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:14:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001031211431.C28909@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39FDB50A.4919D84E@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:51:06AM -0800
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:51:06AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> > Could
> > there be a runtime linking thing with a cpu detection wether we
> > have ll/sc or not ?
>
> This is a wonderful idea. It should incorporate into future MIPS CPU
> support structure.
But what is the better alternative? Emulating ll/sc is a generic facility.
Aside of making that more efficient the only idea I have is putting entire
atomic operations into the kernel such that the standard case should result
in at most one exception to be handled in the kernel.
Btw, could somebody put a counter into the ll/sc emulator and test how
often it gets called on a R3000 machine?
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-31 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 14:17 userspace spinlocks Florian Lohoff
2000-10-30 17:51 ` Jun Sun
2000-10-31 20:14 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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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