[parisc-linux] Re:[parisc-linux-cvs] linux-2.6 kyle

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sun August 20 2006 21:47, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:02:51AM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
> > One more question (according to assembly stuff)
> > what happen when the two cpu excute at the same time the same:
> > 
> >  ldcw,co 0(%r3),%r28
> 
> Simply answer: One of the CPUs loses bus arbitration and will stall
> until it can get access to the "central bus" (e.g. runway or Mckinley).
> The CPUs no longer execute insn "at the same time" after that.
> 
> BTW, I like the URL Michael Zick posted in reply.
>

If you meant my draft paper, there is a *.pdf version also:
http://www.morethan.org/parisc/pa-spinlocks.pdf

That draft is all of the published information I could find,
If anything else ever slips out of the hp tech. vaults...

The incomplete sections are contained in the references.
 
> 
> hth,
> grant
> 

Mike