Christoph Hellwig wrote: > the lockless mode is really just loops around cmpxchg. It's spinlocks > reinvented poorly.
I beg to differ. You have to use different spinlocks depending on where you are: - serving user-space - bh-derivatives - irq lockless is the same primitive regardless of your current state, it's not the same as spinlocks. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
