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.
next prev parent 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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