Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops

John Levon (movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com)
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:00:04 +0000


On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:06:48PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> With preemption this turns into a problem that is easier to solve
> with a lock or by not having per-cpu caches in the first place --

whilst you're correct (pre-emption has made everything harder), there's
not much point moaning about it, since it's in linus' kernel now. So
why bother ?

regards
john

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