From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hesterberg Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:38:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] to remove unused hcl_spinlock Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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" 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