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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: george@mvista.com, niv@us.ibm.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
	ak@suse.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	ak@muc.de, pekkas@netcore.fi
Subject: Re: System crash in tcp_fragment()
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:49:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521114922.B6519@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020520.230021.29510217.davem@redhat.com>

> That's not the problem.  We use per-cpu values for each counter (and
> when the user asks for the value, we add together the values from
> each processor).

At least on x86 gcc usually seems to just generate an incl, which should
be ok because it is atomic enough (even when a reschedule happens it will 
act as a full memory barrier)

So it'll likely just be a problem for load-store architectures.


-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205201836160.9301-100000@w-nivedita2.des.beaverton.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <3CE9E466.AC2358EE@mvista.com>
2002-05-21  6:00   ` System crash in tcp_fragment() David S. Miller
     [not found]   ` <20020520.230021.29510217.davem@redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <3CE9F679.90ACF597@mvista.com>
2002-05-21  7:22       ` David S. Miller
2002-05-21 12:47       ` kuznet
2002-05-21 15:42         ` george anzinger
2002-05-21 12:54       ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-21  7:25     ` george anzinger
2002-05-21  9:49     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-05-21  6:08 ` george anzinger
     [not found] <20020520.173416.105610032.davem@redhat.com>
2002-05-21  1:00 ` kuznet
2002-05-21  1:49 ` Nivedita Singhvi
     [not found] <3CE9960D.15D41380@mvista.com>
     [not found] ` <200205210041.EAA04407@sex.inr.ac.ru>
2002-05-21  0:34   ` David S. Miller
2002-05-21  0:41 ` kuznet
     [not found] <20020521015407.A1296@wotan.suse.de>
2002-05-21  0:11 ` kuznet
2002-05-21  0:20   ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-21  0:26   ` george anzinger
     [not found]   ` <20020521022007.A6248@wotan.suse.de>
2002-05-21  0:34     ` george anzinger
     [not found]   ` <3CE99434.20E7479C@mvista.com>
2002-05-21  0:18     ` David S. Miller
2002-05-21  0:39     ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] <3CE95190.75C52E2D@mvista.com>
2002-05-20 20:29 ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] ` <20020520222937.A1467@averell>
2002-05-20 21:18   ` george anzinger
2002-05-20 21:25 ` kuznet
2002-05-20 22:08 ` David S. Miller
     [not found] ` <200205202125.BAA03545@sex.inr.ac.ru>
2002-05-20 23:01   ` george anzinger
2002-05-20 23:54   ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-20 19:42 george anzinger

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