Re: (*(unsigned long *)&jiffies)++;

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:32:17 +0000 (GMT)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> If it is essential that instructions be ordered in a specific way,
> then a platform-specific macro should have been defined using the
> necessary assembly language.

what's wrong with using existing atomic_XXX() macros? They are explicitly
__volatile__ and use incl without performance penalty on UP (because LOCK
is nop on UP and lock prefix on SMP).

Just an idea.

Tigran.

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