Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:38:16 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements |
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:36:40PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 27.12.2009, 22:03 +0100 schrieb Andi Kleen: > > While porting some of my code to kfifo I found some issues, which > > are addressed in the following patch series. > > > > Some of the problems were serious, particularly the non atomic kfifo_in() > > problem. That's probably 2.6.33 material at least. > > > > I am not happy to see you to take over my project. Especial as most of
I'm just trying to use kfifos and ran into lots of issues that I fixed. Especially the non atomic kfifo_in problem seemed pretty fatal BTW.
> your fixes are part of my new macro based implementation. Have a look at > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69093/
Even if that was merged the older interfaces still need to be fixed.
Or are you saying the new interface would completely replace kfifos?
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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