From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
The note about partial registers is not really relevent now that we
rely on gcc to generate all the assembler.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h | 4 ----
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index f5695ee..972c260 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@
* issues and should be optimal for the uncontended case. Note the tail must be
* in the high part, because a wide xadd increment of the low part would carry
* up and contaminate the high part.
- *
- * With fewer than 2^8 possible CPUs, we can use x86's partial registers to
- * save some instructions and make the code more elegant. There really isn't
- * much between them in performance though, especially as locks are out of line.
*/
static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
{
--
1.7.6
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