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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <mckenney@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com>
Cc: lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:14:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011012141419.4ea534b5.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.1011010185252.9717A-300000@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.1011010185252.9717A-300000@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
"Paul E. McKenney" <mckenney@eng4.beaverton.ibm.com> wrote:
 
> Here are two patches.  The wmbdd patch has been modified to use
> the lighter-weight SPARC instruction, as suggested by Dave Miller.
> The rmbdd patch defines an rmbdd() primitive that is defined to be
> rmb() on Alpha and a nop on other architectures.  I believe this
> rmbdd() primitive is what Richard is looking for.

Surely we don't need both?  If rmbdd exists, any code needing wmbdd
is terminally broken?

Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-12  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-11  1:56 RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion Paul E. McKenney
2001-10-12  4:14 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-10-13 14:48   ` Paul E. McKenney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 21:47 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10 22:22 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10 22:27 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10  1:19 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10  1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-09 18:01 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 17:46 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 16:51 Manfred Spraul
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 15:28 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 15:24 Paul McKenney
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  1:55 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
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

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