Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753533Ab3FJVPe (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:15:34 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:59931 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752763Ab3FJVPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:15:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:15:20 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Steven Rostedt , 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 Message-ID: <20130610211520.GQ5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20130609193657.GA13392@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1370897278.9844.115.camel@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13061021-5806-0000-0000-000021A31C12 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 28 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/