David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > No, they're not. LL/SC is more flexible than CMPXCHG because under some > circumstances, you can get away without doing the SC, Of course, CMPXCHG doesn't have to store either, though it still performs a locked-write-cycle on x86 if I remember correctly. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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