Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:20:42 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP safe reference counting Message-ID: <20020328132041.GA24734@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203271433300.49047-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <20020327171351.E31836@locore.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203271433300.49047-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > Apparently, On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:51:57PM -0500, > > > > We support 386 still? > > > We certainly support it but I think that for 386 we can ignore the concept > of SMP and make versions that are not SMP safe but DO > satisfy the basic functionality.. > > i.e. the '386 version of atomic ops need not be atomic :-) They need to be atomic in the sense of preemtion. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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