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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, maillist@jg555.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:21:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060717052157.GA3674@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152998347.3114.36.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > The attraction is that the kernel abstractions are very nice.
> > Much of the POSIX API sucks ass. The kernel stuff is NOT crap.
> > 
> > Here we have a full-featured set of atomic ops,
> 
> which are not atomic actually in userspace (hint: most apps don't have
> CONFIG_SMP set)

Atomic ops for some architectures / configuration won't even work at al
in userspace because they're implemented by disabling interrupts.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-17  5:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-15 21:09 2.6.18 Headers - Long Albert Cahalan
2006-07-15 21:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17  5:21   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2006-07-15 21:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-15 21:47 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16  6:18   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16  6:26     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-16  8:05     ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16  8:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-16 12:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-16 12:48   ` Russell King
2006-07-16 18:38   ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 18:53     ` Russell King
2006-07-16 19:22       ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 19:41         ` Russell King
2006-07-17  1:26         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17  1:23   ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-12  0:35 Jim Gifford
2006-07-14  0:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14  2:18   ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 18:55     ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 19:28       ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 19:39         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-14 20:16           ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 20:19             ` David Miller
2006-07-14 20:57               ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-15  4:33                 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-16 14:08                   ` Nix
2006-07-15  7:19                 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-15  7:08               ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 19:57         ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 20:06         ` Erik Andersen
2006-07-14 20:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-26 16:09   ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-29 12:25     ` Ralf Baechle

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