Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262887AbVAQVb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:31:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262891AbVAQVb3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:31:29 -0500 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:10761 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262887AbVAQVbH (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:31:07 -0500 Message-ID: <41EC3053.3020508@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:38:27 -0500 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Robert Wisniewski , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 References: <20050114002352.5a038710.akpm@osdl.org> <1105740276.8604.83.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <41E85123.7080005@opersys.com> <20050116162127.GC26144@infradead.org> <41EAC560.30202@opersys.com> <16874.50688.68959.36156@kix.watson.ibm.com> <20050116123212.1b22495b.akpm@osdl.org> <16874.54187.919814.272833@kix.watson.ibm.com> <1105911624.8734.55.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <16875.56543.264481.586616@kix.watson.ibm.com> <20050117161335.GA9404@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050117161335.GA9404@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 23 Hello Chistoph, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The thing I'm unhappy with is what the code does currently. I haven't > looked at the code enough nor through about the problem enough to tell > you what's the right thing to do. Knowing that will involve review of > the architecture and serious benchmarking on a few plattforms. Like I was saying elswhere, we are likely going to drop the lockless code for now (i.e. the code that does the cmpxchg). Instead we will depend on normal cli/sti abstractions. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/