On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 01:39:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, so x86 has obviously done ticket locks for a while now, and I think > it's good that ia64 does too, but I wonder why you made the ticket lock be > a full 64-bit thing? This got brought up earlier, and there isn't a fetchadd4, only a fetchadd8. I have no comment on your other criticism. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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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