From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: pmckenne@us.ibm.com, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:39:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15r8LR-0000wm-00@wagner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Oct 2001 09:11:01 MST." <20011009091101.A27319@twiddle.net>
In message <20011009091101.A27319@twiddle.net> you write:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:03:37PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I don't *like* making Alpha's wmb() stronger, but it is the
> > only solution which doesn't touch common code.
>
> It's not a "solution" at all. It's so heavy weight you'd be
> much better off with locks. Just use the damned rmb_me_harder.
Wow! I'm glad you're volunteering to audit all the kernel code to fix
this Alpha-specific bug by inserting rmb_me_harder() in all the
critical locations!
Don't miss any!
I look forward to seeing your patch,
Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 1:55 RFC: patch to allow lock-free traversal of lists with insertion Paul E. McKenney
2001-10-09 2:18 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09 6:52 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09 9:03 ` Rusty Russell
2001-10-09 16:11 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10 1:39 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-10-09 7:13 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 7:46 ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-10-09 8:21 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 8:48 ` Dipankar Sarma
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-09 5:27 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 5:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09 6:43 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09 15:24 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 15:28 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 15:45 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 17:00 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10 3:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-10 17:02 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-09 16:51 Manfred Spraul
2001-10-09 17:46 Paul McKenney
2001-10-09 18:01 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10 1:19 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10 1:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-10-10 21:47 Paul McKenney
2001-10-10 22:22 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-10 22:27 ` Richard Henderson
2001-10-11 1:56 Paul E. McKenney
2001-10-12 4:14 ` Rusty Russell
2001-10-13 14:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
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