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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: write_unlock: replace clear_bit with byte store
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:51:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429155153.GA8928@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504281329150.23584@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:48:43AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
>   >> Yes, but _if_ it's a good idea to use .nta with GCC, there is no
>   >> reason not to do the same with ICC.  Don't introduce unnecessary
>   >> divergence.
> 
>   Christoph> The same situation of .nta only for GCC already exists
>   Christoph> for regular spinlocks as a result of my nta unlock patch
>   Christoph> that I posted a week or so ago.
> 
> And that's an argument to make the situation worse?  How about
> cleaning up the previous patch instead?

I don't think it's fair to expect contributors to fix up ifdef'ed bits for
a propritary compiler.  If HP and Intel care about it they can add the
features for icc later.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-29 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28 20:32 write_unlock: replace clear_bit with byte store Christoph Lameter
2005-04-28 20:43 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-28 20:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-28 22:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-28 22:25 ` Zou, Nanhai
2005-04-28 22:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-28 23:55 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-29  0:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29  0:28 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-29  0:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29  1:04 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-29  1:48 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-04-29  7:09 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 11:37 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 15:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29 15:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29 15:24 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 15:28 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 15:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29 15:38 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 15:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29 15:48 ` David Mosberger
2005-04-29 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-04-29 15:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29 16:01 ` David Mosberger

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