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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: VM fixes [1/4]
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 10:00:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041224100016.530a004c.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041224173519.GB13747@dualathlon.random>

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:35:19 +0100
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote:

> I made used_math a char at the light of later patches. per-cpu atomicity
> with byte granularity is provided by all archs AFIK.

Older Alpha's need to read-modify-write a word to implement
byte ops.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-24 17:35 VM fixes [1/4] Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 18:00 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-12-24 18:20   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 18:41     ` Lee Revell
2004-12-24 18:48       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-12-24 18:52         ` Lee Revell
2004-12-25  4:40     ` Jeff Garzik

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