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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.