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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Spinlock patch, take 2
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:33:18PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Here's another version of my spinlock patch against 2.6.4. It optimizes
> spinlocks used for atomic operations by putting the atomic locks into a
> special section that is guaranteed to be 16-byte aligned, so no runtime
> alignment is needed. Build-tested against 2.6.4. Comments?

Looks beautiful. Is it measurably faster, or just semantically more
correct than the existing implementation? :)

c.