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>I produced a new patch to fix the wait-event-interface SMP-races. I hope I
>merged all the good implementation-hints I got. All architectures will
>need to provide set_mb() to make the thing working. set_mb() can safely be
>implemented everywhere as I did in the Alpha port (see the changes
>include/asm-alpha/system.h). That should be the obvious implementation. As
>Ingo pointed out on x86 it's a bit faster implemented using xchg than
>using mb() and that's why we have a per-arch set_mb().
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>The other thing to note is that in a UP compile __set_current/task_state
>will be completly equal to set_current/task_state (and that's the real
What is this news? ;)
Andrea
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