* Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This change causes the memory access of the "easy" spin-loop portion > > > > to be more agressive: after the REP; NOP we'd not do the 'easy-loop' > > > > with a simple CMPB, but we'd re-attempt the atomic op. > > > > > > It looks as if this is going to overflow of the lock counter, no? > > > > hm, what do you mean? There's no lock counter. > > I mean, the repeated calls to decb will pretty soon make lock->slock > wrap around.
ugh, indeed, bad thinko on my part. I'll rework this. Ingo - 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/