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From: Peter Zijlstra
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock globally
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 4:45 am

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 21:38 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

How is it required? 

Its currently implemented as such, and its sure a lot easier to do that
way, but I could imagine that unplugging a CPU could be done without it.


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[PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock globally, Jonathan Corbet, (Wed Aug 25, 12:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Aug 25, 1:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Jonathan Corbet, (Wed Aug 25, 1:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Nick Piggin, (Wed Aug 25, 9:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 26, 1:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Nick Piggin, (Thu Aug 26, 2:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 26, 2:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 26, 2:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Aug 26, 3:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Aug 26, 3:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Nick Piggin, (Thu Aug 26, 4:38 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Aug 26, 4:45 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Aug 26, 4:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Nick Piggin, (Thu Aug 26, 10:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Aug 27, 12:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] lglock: make lg_lock_global() actually lock gl ..., Peter Zijlstra, (Fri Aug 27, 12:59 am)