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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:22:00 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] generic rwsems
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 02:43:03PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Yes, this is the case on our 2 premiere SMP powerhouse architectures,
> sparc32 and parsic.

sparc32 is ultra-legacy and I have a tremendous amount of work to do on
SMP there. I don't feel that efficiency of locking primitives is a
crucial issue for sparc32.


-- wli