From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:16:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [git pull] ia64 changes Message-Id: <20090926231654.GB19892@parisc-linux.org> List-Id: References: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC0122AEB1@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC0122AEB1@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 01:39:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, so x86 has obviously done ticket locks for a while now, and I think > it's good that ia64 does too, but I wonder why you made the ticket lock be > a full 64-bit thing? This got brought up earlier, and there isn't a fetchadd4, only a fetchadd8. I have no comment on your other criticism. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."