Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:38:16 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/6] kfifo fixes/improvements
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:36:40PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 27.12.2009, 22:03 +0100 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> > While porting some of my code to kfifo I found some issues, which
> > are addressed in the following patch series.
> > 
> > Some of the problems were serious, particularly the non atomic kfifo_in()
> > problem. That's probably 2.6.33 material at least. 
> > 
> 
> I am not happy to see you to take over my project. Especial as most of

I'm just trying to use kfifos and ran into lots of issues that
I fixed. Especially the non atomic kfifo_in problem seemed pretty fatal
BTW.

> your fixes are part of my new macro based implementation. Have a look at
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69093/

Even if that was merged the older interfaces still need to be fixed.

Or are you saying the new interface would completely replace kfifos?

-Andi

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