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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: pmckenne@us.ibm.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 09:11:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011009091101.A27319@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110090155.f991tPt22329@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com> <20011008235208.A26109@twiddle.net> <20011009190337.0009802c.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011009190337.0009802c.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>; from rusty@rustcorp.com.au on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000

On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I don't *like* making Alpha's wmb() stronger, but it is the
> only solution which doesn't touch common code.

It's not a "solution" at all.  It's so heavy weight you'd be
much better off with locks.  Just use the damned rmb_me_harder.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-09 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09  1:55 RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion Paul E. McKenney
2001-10-09  2:18 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09  6:52 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09  9:03   ` Rusty Russell
2001-10-09 16:11     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2001-10-10  1:39       ` Rusty Russell
2001-10-09  7:13 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09  7:46   ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-10-09  8:21     ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09  8:48       ` Dipankar Sarma
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09  5:27 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09  5:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09  6:43   ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09 15:24 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 15:28 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 15:45 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 17:00 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10  3:33   ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-10 17:02     ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09 16:51 Manfred Spraul
2001-10-09 17:46 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 18:01 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10  1:19 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10  1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-10 21:47 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10 22:22 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10 22:27 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-11  1:56 Paul E. McKenney
2001-10-12  4:14 ` Rusty Russell
2001-10-13 14:48   ` Paul E. McKenney

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