On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Hmm? Untested, I know. Maybe I overlooked something. But even the > > generated assembly code looks fine (much better than it looked before!) > > Boots and runs fine. Fixes the freezes as well, which is not such a > big surprise, since basically any change in that function seems to do > that ;)
Yeah, and that code really was *designed* to make all "locking in a loop" go away. So unlike the patches adding random barriers and cpu_relax() calls (which might fix it for some *particular* hw setup), I pretty much guarantee that you can never get that code into a situation where there is some lock being starved on *any* hw setup. Ingo, an ack for the patch, and I'll just apply it? Linus - 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/