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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
To: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Spinlock patch, take 2
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:37:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315073740.GA660@baldric.uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040315063318.GC2384@tausq.org>

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:33:18PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Here's another version of my spinlock patch against 2.6.4. It optimizes
> spinlocks used for atomic operations by putting the atomic locks into a
> special section that is guaranteed to be 16-byte aligned, so no runtime
> alignment is needed. Build-tested against 2.6.4. Comments?

Looks beautiful. Is it measurably faster, or just semantically more
correct than the existing implementation? :)

c.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-15  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-15  6:33 [parisc-linux] Spinlock patch, take 2 Randolph Chung
2004-03-15  7:37 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2004-03-15  7:43   ` Randolph Chung
2004-03-19 14:30 ` Joel Soete
2004-03-19 16:27   ` Joel Soete
2004-03-25  7:28     ` Randolph Chung
2004-03-25  6:00       ` Grant Grundler

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