From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753457AbaIEPmY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:42:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48305 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753058AbaIEPmW (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:42:22 -0400 Message-ID: <5409D9C0.7030403@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:41:52 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Hurley CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Laight , Jakub Jelinek , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Tony Luck , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , Oleg Nesterov , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Paul Mackerras , "Paul E. McKenney" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , Miroslav Franc , Richard Henderson , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing References: <20140712181328.GA8738@redhat.com> <54079B70.4050200@hurleysoftware.com> <1409785893.30640.118.camel@pasglop> <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D17487172@AcuExch.aculab.com> <1409824374.4246.62.camel@pasglop> <5408E458.3@zytor.com> <54090AF4.7060406@hurleysoftware.com> <54091B30.7080100@zytor.com> <5409D76D.2070203@hurleysoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <5409D76D.2070203@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/05/2014 08:31 AM, Peter Hurley wrote: > > Which is a bit ironic because I remember when Digital had a team > working on emulating native x86 apps on Alpha/NT. > Right, because the x86 architecture was obsolete and would never scale... -hpa