Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 13, 2015 12:48 UTC (Wed) by zuki (subscriber, #41808)
In reply to: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel by neilbrown
Parent article: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

>> It's already racy.
> Racy in what sense?

I should have said "non-atomic". OP was wondering if a syscall option can be added to do configuration+execution in one step. I was just pointing out that the configuration step is already separate (e.g. for hibernation).