From: John Hesterberg <jh@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] to remove unused hcl_spinlock
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:38:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805174@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805165@msgid-missing>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:40:34PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:01:40 -0700, "David C. Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com> said:
>
> David.Hansen> I was looking at spinlocks in the kernel and came
> David.Hansen> across hcl_spinlock. If you look at this paper:
> David.Hansen> http://lse.sourceforge.net/lockhier/global-spin-lock ,
> David.Hansen> you can see a part on hcl_spinlock. It is
> David.Hansen> initialized. but never used. Was this lock meant to
> David.Hansen> guard something? Is that thing still in the code? If
> David.Hansen> it isn't, here is a patch to remove hcl_spinlock.
>
> Just FYI: stuff in the sn/ subdirectories is SGI specific. Since I
> can't test that, I try to avoid touching it and it would be up to SGI
> to incorporate your patch (I suspect they have fixed that already: the
> SN code hasn't been synced in a while).
>
> --david
Nope, it's still in our tree.
We're syncing up soon, so I'll take a look at this.
John
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2001-09-10 23:40 [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] to remove unused hcl_spinlock David Mosberger
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