On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, David Miller wrote: > That's correct for hardware interrupts. It will, however, work for > soft interrupts and similar contexts.
Is there really a significant gain? It seems that such logic would be more expensive than an atomic operation. local_t is saving atomic overhead right? It does no good for cacheline contention etc. Adding another int will increase cache footprint. Another rat hole? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
