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From: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller)
Subject: [ltt-dev] cli/sti vs local_cmpxchg and local_add_return
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090317.122816.246078801.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090317160635.GE10092@Krystal>

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:06:35 -0400

> But powerpc has non-maskable interrupts, so for less than 4 cycles, I
> think it's better to stay with the local_t variant to be NMI-safe.

Sparc64 has non-maskable interrupts too btw.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  1:32 Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17  3:37 ` David Miller
2009-03-17  4:10   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17  4:27     ` David Miller
2009-03-17  4:44       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17  5:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-03-17 16:06   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17 19:28     ` David Miller [this message]
2009-03-17 19:35       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17  6:05 ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-17 15:14   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-18 11:43     ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-18 15:10       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-17 18:42 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2009-03-17 19:01   ` Andika Triwidada
2009-03-23 16:50   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-18 11:56 ` Josh Boyer
2009-03-23 16:56   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-03-23 17:04     ` Josh Boyer

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