Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:47:33 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an arch doesn't support it |
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On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:43:09AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > > You're advocating cmpxchg is adopted by all architectures. It isn't > > available on many architectures, and those which it can be requires > > unnecessarily complicated coding. > > Not having cmpxchg is even worse because it requires the introduction and > maintenance of large sets of arch specific operations. Much more complex.
And which bit of "not available on many architectures" have you not grasped yet?
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