From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
sbw@mit.edu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC ticketlock] Auto-queued ticketlock
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:15:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130610211520.GQ5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1306102250590.22970@ionos>
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-06-09 at 12:36 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
> >
> > Is there such a thing as a BIG_ENDIAN x86 box? This is in
> > arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h
>
> That's just an habit for people who have been forced to deal with BE
> CPUs.
>
> The sad thing is that BE CPUs have been designed by folks who blindly
> expanded BCD computing without understanding the hardware
> implications.
>
> Unfortunately they managed to inflict BE to the network protocols
> which in turn manifested the only excuse of keeping the BE nonsense
> alive.
Hey, we had to do -something-, after all, EBCDIC lost out to ASCII!!! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-10 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 19:36 [PATCH RFC ticketlock] Auto-queued ticketlock Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-10 20:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-10 20:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-10 21:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-10 21:15 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-06-10 21:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-10 21:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-10 21:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-10 21:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-10 23:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 0:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 0:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-11 7:53 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-11 10:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 15:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 16:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 10:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:53 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-11 18:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 18:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 18:14 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-11 18:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 17:50 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-12 18:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-12 20:03 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-12 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-12 20:40 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-12 21:06 ` Raymond Jennings
2013-06-12 23:32 ` Al Viro
2013-06-13 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-13 0:20 ` Al Viro
2013-06-13 0:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-13 0:49 ` Al Viro
2013-06-13 0:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-14 15:00 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-14 15:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-14 18:17 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-15 1:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-06-15 3:36 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-12 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-12 18:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 9:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 15:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 1:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 9:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 14:48 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-11 15:10 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-11 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-11 17:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 15:57 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-11 16:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 16:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 17:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:35 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-11 16:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 17:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 18:41 ` Waiman Long
2013-06-11 18:54 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-06-11 19:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 20:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 20:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 20:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 20:25 ` Jason Low
2013-06-11 20:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 21:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 1:19 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-12 1:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-12 10:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 11:06 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-12 14:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 14:15 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-12 14:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:02 ` [PATCH RFC ticketlock] v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-11 17:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-11 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-06-11 17:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 15:40 ` [PATCH RFC ticketlock] v3 " Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-12 16:13 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-12 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-13 2:55 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-13 15:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-13 23:25 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-13 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-14 1:28 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-14 23:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-14 7:12 ` Lai Jiangshan
2013-06-14 23:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
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2013-07-01 9:19 ` Raghavendra KT
2013-07-02 5:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
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