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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] queued spinlocks (i386)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:10:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070323101042.GD11577@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323100418.GA30740@elte.hu>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:04:18AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > Implement queued spinlocks for i386. [...]
> 
> isnt this patented by MS? (which might not worry you SuSE/Novell guys, 
> but it might be a worry for the rest of the world ;-)

I never thought a FIFO queue would be patentable.

Do you have a reference to the patent number?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-23 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23  8:59 [rfc][patch] queued spinlocks (i386) Nick Piggin
2007-03-23  9:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-23  9:59   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-23 19:27   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-03-23 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-23 10:10   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-03-23 16:48     ` Parag Warudkar
2007-03-23 18:15     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-23 10:32   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-23 10:40     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-23 11:02     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-24 15:55     ` Nikita Danilov
2007-03-24 17:29       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-24 18:49         ` Nikita Danilov
2007-03-28  6:43         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-28 19:26           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-28 22:00             ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-29  1:36               ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-29  7:16                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-30  0:27                   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-30  1:59                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-30  2:43                       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-29  1:24             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-24 21:41     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-28  6:56       ` Nick Piggin

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