On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:43 -0800, David Miller wrote: > At least in theory the atomic + any necessary memory barriers > would be cheaper than the extra PIO read we need otherwise.
Yes, IO reads are generally the worst case scenarios even on machines with fairly slow locks. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
