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Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Posted Feb 19, 2012 21:51 UTC (Sun) by phip (guest, #1715)
In reply to: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE by alison
Parent article: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Big Kernel Lock...

Hmm, that brings up another point I should have thought of earlier:
Non-coherent multi-CPU SOCs are also likely to not implement
atomic memory access primatives (i.e. Compare/Exchange, Test and Set,
Load-Linked/Store-Conditional, etc.)

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