Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:29:34 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Error Condition Re: Posting rejected |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 linux-kernel@samba.anu.edu.au wrote:
>Your posting to list LINUX-KERNEL was rejected. >Reason: message size limit exceeded (maximum allowed: 40000 bytes) >The first few lines of your message are included herein for reference: > >I produced a new patch to fix the wait-event-interface SMP-races. I hope I >merged all the good implementation-hints I got. All architectures will >need to provide set_mb() to make the thing working. set_mb() can safely be >implemented everywhere as I did in the Alpha port (see the changes >include/asm-alpha/system.h). That should be the obvious implementation. As >Ingo pointed out on x86 it's a bit faster implemented using xchg than >using mb() and that's why we have a per-arch set_mb(). > >The other thing to note is that in a UP compile __set_current/task_state >will be completly equal to set_current/task_state (and that's the real
What is this news? ;)
Andrea
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