Rafael E. Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read an article in
> http://news.tucows.com/ext2/99/11/articles/ext2112919991.shtml (which
> someone told me is not very good)
I was asked to write an article on SMP programming. Considering I didn't
have an SMP board to experiment on, and used only existing code/documentation
it seems to have gone down well with everyone else who has read it.
> that I understand to mean that there
> is the possibility that more than 'Size' bytes will be writen/read
I think you misinterpreted what I wrote in the article.
The section I think you got confused on was the bit where I was explaining
how a device could recieve two sets of bytes at the same time if both
CPUs were in that routine. The spinlock example you went on to show seems
okay to me, so it seems you got the message I was trying to put across.
--
Dave.
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