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Re: fealnx oopses

To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: fealnx oopses
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:35:14 +0100
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Henriksson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
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> Yes. But on x86 a++ is atomic vs interrupts - it's a single instruction
> and interrupts happen on instruction boundaries only.

Do you realize that you are saying that the CPU can atomically increment an
integer which sits _in memory_ ?

Oops :o)

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