Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:36:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] mutex subsystem, -V5
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Changes since -V4:
> 
> - removed __ARCH_WANT_XCHG_BASED_ATOMICS and implemented
>   CONFIG_MUTEX_XCHG_ALGORITHM instead, based on comments from
>   Christoph Hellwig.
> 
> - updated ARM to use CONFIG_MUTEX_XCHG_ALGORITHM.

This is still not what I'd like to see, per my previous comments.

Do you have any strong reason for pursuing that route instead of going 
with my suggested approach?


Nicolas
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