On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 05:37 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > It's a bit regrettable to have different architectures behaving in > > different ways. It would be interesting to toss an x86_64 > > implementation into the grinder, see if it causes any problems, see if > > it produces any tangible benefits. Then other architectures might > > follow. Or not, depending on the results ;) > > I personally expect SGI to work on this for x86_64 in the future. > Once we actually start testing systems with 128 and above cpus, I > would expect to see these performance issues needing to be addressed. > Until then, it is just a theoretical. Personally I consider this a ugly hack and would love to see people solve the actual problem and move away from rwlock_t, its utter rubbish. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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