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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:43:55 -0700
From: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com
To: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:00:04PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:06:48PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> 
> > With preemption this turns into a problem that is easier to solve
> > with a lock or by not having per-cpu caches in the first place -- 
> 
> whilst you're correct (pre-emption has made everything harder), there's
> not much point moaning about it, since it's in linus' kernel now. So 
> why bother ?
> 

everyone needs a hobby. 


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