Re: [patch] preemptive kernel, preemptive-2.3.52-A7

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 13:00:47 EST

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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The compiler barrier() are necessary indeed.

And can give better code on other CPUs -- register operations can be
interleaved into the multi-instruction inc/dec ops.

-- Jamie

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