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Message-ID: <48AE0A14.4090609@goop.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:36:36 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] smp_call_function: don't use lock in call_function_data
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> There's no need for a lock in call_function_data, since it's only used
> to decrement-and-test a counter. Use an atomic instead.
BTW, these two patches are against tip.git.
J
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