Dave,
sorry for the late answer; I had to interrupt my SMC-R activities for a
while; now I can continue ...
On 08/10/2016 07:45 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Ursula Braun <ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 15:44:00 +0200
But there are still usages (and conn->rx_curs_confirmed is one of
them), where I need an 8-byte cursor field to be read and written
atomicaly, even though I do not care whether the write operation has
been beaten or not. But I do care that reading the cursor does not
return a partially updated cursor. Isn't xchg() a possible solution
in this case?
Either the cpu supports 64-bit stores or it does not.
xchg() and atomicity have absolutely nothing to do with this.
Understood, I wrongly used xchg() for atomicity. I now realize that I
would need cursor locking for 32-bit architectures - something I would
like to defer. Thus I would like to come up with V2 of SMC-R with builds
restricted to 64-bit architectures only, and thus no usage of xchg()
anymore.
