Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751006AbWC2WRz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:17:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750810AbWC2WRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:17:54 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:29638 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbWC2WRy (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:17:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:17:45 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: "Boehm, Hans" cc: "Grundler, Grant G" , "Chen, Kenneth W" , Nick Piggin , Zoltan Menyhart , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: Fix unlock_buffer() to work the same way as bit_unlock() In-Reply-To: <65953E8166311641A685BDF71D865826A23D0E@cacexc12.americas.cpqcorp.net> Message-ID: References: <65953E8166311641A685BDF71D865826A23D0E@cacexc12.americas.cpqcorp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 18 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Boehm, Hans wrote: > Somewhat improved slides for the talk Grant is referring to are at > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/pldi05_threads.pdf Hmm.. A paper on that subject would be better. Cannot get much from the slides. > It's hard to get this stuff right. But we knew that. Could you come up with a proposal how to correctly define and API to bit ops in such a way that they work for all architectures and allow us to utilize all the features that processors may have? - 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/