RE: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

[Luck, Tony]

>> 6674:   while (atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite) > 0)
>> 6675-           atomic_dec(&j->DSPWrite);
>
> If the maintainer of this code doesn't see a compelling reason to add 
> cpu_relax() in this loop, then it should be patched.

Shouldn't it be just re-written without the loop:

	if ((tmp = atomic_read(&j->DSPWrite)) > 0)
		atomic_sub(&j->DSPWrite, tmp);

Has all the same bugs, but runs much faster :-)

-Tony
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