Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Sat, 26 May 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> Export the existance of ll/sc via /proc/cpuinfo or whatever.

 That's a valid approach and also nothing new to glibc -- see Alpha and
in()/out() support.  But do we want an extra overhead due to an indirect
call?  Especially as _test_and_set() gets usually inlined?

> I dont think this is true necessarly - There are still people building
> embedded x86 systems based on 386 cores. Look at the vr41xx systems - They
> do also lack the ll/sc afaik. This is nowadays the most commonly
> used embedded/pda cpu.

 Are vr41xx plain ISA I or crippled ISA II+ CPUs? 

-- 
+  Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland   +
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+        e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available        +