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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	xemul@sw.ru, Andrey Savochkin <saw@sawoct.com>,
	st@sw.ru
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: SMP syncronization on AMD processors (broken?)
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:10:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43453042.4030400@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510061556.31305.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen a écrit :
> On Thursday 06 October 2005 15:50, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> 
>>Maybe we should reflect this in Kconfig ?
>>
>>config NR_CPUS
>>range 2 128
>>
>>Or use a plain int for spinlock, instead of a signed char.
> 
> 
> Hmm? 2.6 already uses int as far as I can see.
> 

Not in public 2.6 at least.

ffffffff8030be10 <_spin_lock>:
ffffffff8030be10:   55                      push   %rbp
ffffffff8030be11:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
ffffffff8030be14:   f0 fe 0f                lock decb (%rdi)
ffffffff8030be17:   0f 88 d1 02 00 00       js     <.text.lock.spinlock>
ffffffff8030be1d:   c9                      leaveq
ffffffff8030be1e:   c3                      retq

Sorry Andi, I only trust assembly :)

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-06 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-06 13:05 SMP syncronization on AMD processors (broken?) Kirill Korotaev
2005-10-06 13:14 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-06 13:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-06 13:32   ` Andrey Savochkin
2005-10-06 14:22     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-06 13:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-06 13:46   ` Andrey Savochkin
2005-10-06 14:02     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-10-06 14:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-06 15:21       ` Andrey Savochkin
2005-10-06 15:46         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-11  0:59         ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-11  1:20           ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11  3:20             ` Joe Seigh
2005-10-06 13:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-06 13:56     ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-10-06 14:10       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2005-10-06 14:11         ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-06 14:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-06 15:34   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-10-06 15:53     ` Eric Dumazet
2005-10-06 16:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-07 20:38 ` Joe Seigh
2005-10-07 20:57   ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-10-13 18:24 ` Joe Seigh

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