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Re: [Xen-devel] atomic counters larger than 24 bits?
Dan Magenheimer wrote:
In tmem, I have some counters that I need to keep coherent,
preferably without a lock, so I'm using atomic_inc/dec etc.
However the comments in include/asm-x86/atomic.h say repeatedly
that the "useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits".
Old sparcs had no way to implement proper atomics, so they used to
reserve a byte in the atomic_t as a spinlock. But I don't think that's
true any more; they have a separate lock hash, and atomics in the kernel
are at least 32-bits.
First, are the comments true in the xen implementation?
(I don't see any code that restricts them to anything less
than "int".) If they ARE limited to 24 bits, what's the
recommended approach for larger atomic operations... or
do I just need to always use a lock?
I don't think the limitation ever applied to Xen.
J
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