From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: PATCH powerpc Merge asm-ppc*/rwsem.h
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:44:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050923074413.GD19971@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <606.1127460740@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
> rwsems on ppc64 should really be using a 64-bit counter, not a 32-bit counter,
> otherwise you limit the maximum number of processes to 32K-ish.
>
> The counter should be "signed long" really.
Agreed, we should move to a 64bit count.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-23 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-22 19:55 PATCH powerpc Merge asm-ppc*/rwsem.h Jon Loeliger
2005-09-23 7:32 ` David Howells
2005-09-23 7:44 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2005-09-23 7:52 ` David Howells
2005-09-23 12:52 ` Jon Loeliger
2005-09-23 14:09 ` David Howells
2005-09-24 0:46 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-26 11:38 ` David Howells
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