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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, greg@kroah.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1]
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:33:58 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112931238.28858.180.camel@uganda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DJjiR-000850-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

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On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:59 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> >
> > atomic_dec_and_test() is more expensive than 2 barriers + atomic_dec(),
> > but in case of connector I think the price is not so high.
> 
> Can you list the platforms on which this is true?

sparc64, some mips [at least in UP].
I do not know about others, but I think that any
arch, where atomic operations are serialized,
has sync/isync in atomic_dec_and_test()
and does not for atomic_dec().

> Thanks,
-- 
        Evgeniy Polyakov

Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-08  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1112859412.18360.31.camel@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr>
2005-04-07  7:53 ` [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07  7:58   ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07  8:23     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07  8:32       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-07 10:12         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  2:59           ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  3:33             ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2005-04-08  3:32               ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  3:52                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  3:50                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  4:02                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  4:02                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  4:21                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  4:17                           ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  4:23                             ` David S. Miller
2005-04-08  4:55                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  4:53                               ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  4:55                                 ` David S. Miller
2005-04-08  5:11                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  5:08                                   ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-08  5:19                                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  6:02                                       ` David S. Miller
2005-04-08 13:11                                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-08  6:12                                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  4:22                   ` David S. Miller
2005-04-07  8:13   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07  9:12     ` Ian Campbell
2005-04-07  9:52       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07 10:41         ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-07 11:24           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07 14:23             ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-07 14:49               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-07 15:47               ` James Morris
2005-04-08  3:41                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-08  5:55                   ` James Morris
2005-04-08  6:48                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-10  9:52                       ` Herbert Xu
2005-04-10 10:32                         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-10 11:08                           ` Kay Sievers
2005-04-10 11:37                             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-10 11:54                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-10 12:10                               ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-10 12:15                                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-10 14:39                                   ` jamal
2005-04-10 14:56                                     ` James Morris
2005-04-10 15:08                                       ` jamal
2005-04-10 19:27                                     ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-11  5:22                                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2005-04-11 10:45                                         ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-11 11:19                                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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