Re: [PATCH] mm: PageLRU can be non-atomic bit operation

Hisashi Hifumi
2007-04-24T08:13:06Z

At 11:47 07/04/24, Nick Piggin wrote:

>As Hugh points out, we must have atomic ops here, so changing the generic
>code to use the __ version is wrong. However if there is a faster way that
>i386 can perform the atomic variant, then doing so will speed up the generic
>code without breaking other architectures.
>

Do you mean writing page-flags.h specific for i386 so improving generic code
and without breaking other architectures ?