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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linux@horizon.com
Cc: dev@sw.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMP syncronization on AMD processors (broken?)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:12:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434C710C.2040305@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051011235017.21719.qmail@science.horizon.com>

linux@horizon.com wrote:

> The right thing to do here is to wait for the flag to be set *outside*
> the lock, and then re-validate inside the lock:

This may work on some processors, but on others the read of "progress" 
in XXX, or the write in YYY may require arch-specific code to force the 
update out to other cpus.

Alternately, explicitly atomic operations should suffice, but a simple 
increment is probably not enough for portable code.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-12  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-11 23:50 SMP syncronization on AMD processors (broken?) linux
2005-10-12  2:12 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2005-10-12  2:39   ` linux
2005-10-12  3:27     ` Kyle Moffett
2005-10-13 12:25 ` Kirill Korotaev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-08  9:31 Chuck Ebbert
2005-10-06 13:05 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 14:52     ` 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 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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