Re: [PATCH] netfilter: save the hash of the tuple in the originaldirection for latter use

[Changli Gao]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am not sure we must use a long (we really need 4 bytes only), and last
> time I tried to use cmpxchg(), I was being told it was not available on
> all arches.
>
> But seeing it used in kernel/pid.c, maybe its not true anymore (that is,
> __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG is always defined to 1)
>
> Since its a recent change (in kernel/pid.c), I would wait a bit and see
> if an arch maintainer complains ;)
>
>

I searched the code, and found ext4, btrfs, lockdep, perf and trace
all use cmpxchg(). And after this patch serial
(http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2007-08/msg05032.html)
was merged, maybe cmpxchg() is generic. Is there an SMP processor
doesn't support cmpxchg()?

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Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@xxxxxxxxx)
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