/me adds "RT" to subject. On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I have mixed feelings about this. The point of this primitive was for > cases where write contention was rare and writers only did small updates. > So what you did was fix the primitive for cases where it is being misused. > Do you have a real example where this is a problem? If so then the > user of seqlock should be fixed, rather than fixing seqlock. > I think there's some confusion here, because of the changes to raw. The raw_seqlock_t and mainline seqlock_t has no issue, and should not be touched. What Gregory is solving is an issue in -rt where we let write seqlocks be preempted. Thus this causes issues with determinism. This is a special case for -rt, and -rt only. It should not affect mainline in anyway. Sorry for the noise. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
