From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261653AbULIWEv (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:04:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261651AbULIWEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:04:48 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:10122 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261639AbULIWDk (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:03:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:03:31 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Brian Gerst Cc: Imanpreet Singh Arora , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Question from Russells Spinlocks Message-ID: <20041209220331.GF2714@holomorphy.com> References: <41B76B7E.9020706@gmail.com> <41B8C952.3050104@didntduck.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41B8C952.3050104@didntduck.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Imanpreet Singh Arora wrote: [...] On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:53:22PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > In 2.6, the 24-bit limit is no longer valid. atomic_t variables are a > full 32 bits on all arches now. 31 bits? They're signed IIRC. -- wli