Re: page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64 support added

William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28T06:04:32Z

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