Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762171AbZJOADH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:03:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750809AbZJOADG (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:03:06 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:41393 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750774AbZJOADE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:03:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:02:25 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Josh Triplett , Jon Bernard , Jan Blunck , Pierre Habouzit , Steven Munroe , Bert Wesarg , Pierre-Marc Fournier , ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Userspace RCU 0.2.3 Message-ID: <20091015000225.GG6763@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20091014223657.GC6458@Krystal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091014223657.GC6458@Krystal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 38 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:36:57PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Hi, > > I just released lib urcu 0.2.3, which is now using autotools. I also > integrated automatic architecture detection for old 386 which lack > cmpxchg (using a fall-back if necessary). I also use a lock; addl > instead of mfence on x86-32 to support a larger variety of older Intel > CPUs. !!! Is there anyone on these lists other than me who has actually used an SMP 80386-based system? Either way, much appreciated for old time's sake. The things we used to do to avoid the need for cmpxchg! ;-) Thanx, Paul > The build system detects if NR_futex is available in the system > headers. It falls back on a more portable alternative if they are not > available. > > There are also new configuration modes to ./configure for UP-only > systems. > > As always, the tarballs are available at http://www.lttng.org/urcu > > Mathieu > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- 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/