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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	jgarzik@pobox.com, hadi@cyberus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFX]: napi_struct V3
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:12:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070724.221222.116353582.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185340196.1803.482.camel@localhost.localdomain>

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:09:55 +1000

> Not pretty 8(

Not at all and cmpxchg() isn't really a generically usable
primitive.  Yes all platforms provide atomic_cmpxchg() in
one form or another, but it's really barbaric and inefficient
on some cpu types.

Let's can this idea for now.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-24  4:07 [PATCH RFX]: napi_struct V3 David Miller
2007-07-24  4:47 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-24  5:47   ` David Miller
2007-07-24  6:21     ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-25  0:45       ` David Miller
2007-07-25  1:15         ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-25  1:47           ` David Miller
2007-07-25  2:33             ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-25  4:29               ` David Miller
2007-07-25  5:09                 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-25  5:12                   ` David Miller [this message]
2007-07-25  5:10             ` David Miller
2007-07-24  7:12 ` Francois Romieu
2007-07-24  7:33   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-24  7:35   ` David Miller
2007-07-28 15:21 ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-29  5:30   ` David Miller

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