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From: davem@davemloft.net (David Miller)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [ltt-dev] cli/sti vs local_cmpxchg and local_add_return
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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.