From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
<mingo@redhat.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cmpxchg in 2.5.38
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:26:34 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209251024580.4690-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020925120725.A23559@namesys.com>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Ingo's argument was that since there is only one place in code that
> accesses that variable (map->page), it is safe to rely on such a
> crippled cmpxchg implementation.
yes. It's only this place in the code that ever modifies that word, and
that happens only once during the lifetime of this address, so i'll rather
add a spinlock to the generic PID allocator code, it's a very very rare
slowpath.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-25 8:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 5:00 cmpxchg in 2.5.38 Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-25 4:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 7:18 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 7:47 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 8:07 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-09-25 8:26 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2002-09-25 8:48 ` [patch] pidhash-2.5.38-A0 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25 12:04 ` cmpxchg in 2.5.38 Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-09-25 17:42 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-09-25 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25 20:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 18:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-25 19:02 ` David S. Miller
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