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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:20:42 +0100
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: SMP safe reference counting
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> 
> > Apparently, On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:51:57PM -0500,
> > 
> > We support 386 still?
> > 
> We certainly support it but I think that for 386 we can ignore the concept
> of SMP and make versions that are not SMP safe but DO
> satisfy the basic functionality..
> 
> i.e. the '386 version of atomic ops need not be atomic :-)

They need to be atomic in the sense of preemtion.

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