From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266870AbUH1GEc (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:04:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266891AbUH1GEb (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:04:31 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:29348 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266870AbUH1GE2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:04:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:03:51 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , paulus@samba.org, ak@muc.de, davem@davemloft.net, ak@suse.de, davem@redhat.com, raybry@sgi.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vrajesh@umich.edu, hugh@veritas.com Subject: Re: page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64 support added Message-ID: <20040828060351.GH2793@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton , paulus@samba.org, ak@muc.de, davem@davemloft.net, ak@suse.de, davem@redhat.com, raybry@sgi.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vrajesh@umich.edu, hugh@veritas.com References: <20040827172337.638275c3.davem@davemloft.net> <20040827173641.5cfb79f6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040828010253.GA50329@muc.de> <20040827183940.33b38bc2.akpm@osdl.org> <16687.59671.869708.795999@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20040827204241.25da512b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040827223954.7d021aac.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: >> atomic64_t already appears to be implemented on alpha, ia64, mips, s390 and >> sparc64. >> As I said - for both these applications we need a new type which is >> atomic64_t on 64-bit and atomic_t on 32-bit. On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:58:09PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > That is simply a new definition in include/asm-*/atomic.h > so > #define atomic_long atomic64_t > on 64 bit > and > #define atomic_long atomic_t > on 32bit? The operations must also be defined on them, and the remaining 64-bit architectures must implement them also. -- wli