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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:55:45 +0200 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jesse@...ira.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: inet_add_protocol() can use cmpxchg() Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 à 06:42 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit : > Of course, each case is different, but generally I understand Jesse's > concern. Smaller data section argument shouldn't be enough. There is > some reason we do it in C not asm, and there is some cost of > unreadable code too. Sure, but is cmpxchg() really not readable for you ? ;) Now it is available for all arches, you can bet it is going to be adopted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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