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From: Richard Frank <richard.frank-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] IB/core: Add support for enhanced atomic operations
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:56:13 -0500
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Oracle is planning to use these masked atomic ops..

Andy Grover wrote:
> Sean Hefty wrote:
>
>   
>> Just tossing this out as a possibility -- the mask itself could be used to
>> indicate the type of operation.  Kernel clients would always set the mask for
>> all atomic operations.
>>
>> Also, is there a kernel user for this functionality?
>>     
>
> RDS would make use of this.
>
> Regards -- Andy
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