From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 3 13: 8:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363F437B43B; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:08:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0238.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.238] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16MF5y-0001Zc-00; Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:08:14 -0800 Message-ID: <3C34C840.6754F85A@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 13:08:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , John Baldwin , Peter Jeremy , Michal Mertl , Bruce Evans , Mike Smith , Bernd Walter , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When to use atomic_ functions? (was: 64 bit counters) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer wrote: > It's interresti gthat the major antagonists here are all withon 70 km > (Terry are you still in Foster City?) Yes... Of course, we are all *pro*tagonists, not *an*tagonists... > why not just get together with a whiteboard somewhere (here?) > and hack out the locking strategies over a few cups of coffee? Like the whole threads thing? I'm hesitant, since so many good ideas come from outside the circle you describe; we really need better virtual presence capability. I count 4 people on the "Cc:" of your (and this) email who would not be able to attend in person, unless they are on holiday in the U.S. right now... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message