On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > As proven previously the reverse is also true. And as shown previously > the cheaper out of the two for all platforms is the LL/SC based > implementation, where the architecture specific implementation can > be _either_ LL/SC based or cmpxchg based depending on what is > supported in their hardware.
As also shown in this thread: There are restrictions on what you can do between ll/sc. You would not want to use C code there. ll/sc is an thing that needs to be restricted to asm code. So this is not a viable proposal at all. ll/sc is useful to construct various atomic functions but cannot be directly used in C code. cmpxchg can be effectively realized using ll/sc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
