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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:57:11 +0100
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops
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Hi,

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> Right. Without preemption it is safe to do
>         c = smp_get_cpuid();
>        ...
>         x = ++local_cache[c]
>        ..
> 
>        y = ++different_local_cache[c];
>       ..

Just add:
	smp_put_cpuid();

Is that so much worse?

bye, Roman
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