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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:08:52 -0700
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: "Chris Snook" <csnook@...hat.com>,
Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures
>> 6674: while (atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite) > 0)
>> 6675- atomic_dec(&j->DSPWrite);
>
> If the maintainer of this code doesn't see a compelling reason to add
> cpu_relax() in this loop, then it should be patched.
Shouldn't it be just re-written without the loop:
if ((tmp = atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite)) > 0)
atomic_sub(&j->DSPWrite, tmp);
Has all the same bugs, but runs much faster :-)
-Tony
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