Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262071AbTIGNg2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 09:36:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263247AbTIGNg2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 09:36:28 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:47246 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262071AbTIGNg1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Sep 2003 09:36:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:35:43 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Pavel Machek Cc: Alan Cox , nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com, Geert Uytterhoeven , Roman Zippel , Kars de Jong , Linux/m68k kernel mailing list , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this Message-ID: <20030907133543.GD19977@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <1062674382.21667.32.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030905212420.GD220@elf.ucw.cz> <20030906230911.GA12392@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030907131010.GB18067@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030907131010.GB18067@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 649 Lines: 15 Pavel Machek wrote: > Wow, seems interesting, how much performance does it buy? [Maybe AMD > and Intel just threw a lot of silicon at the problem and it went > away. Centaur solution might be nicer, through -- spin_unlock is so > uncommon that this seems like nice optimalization.] I didn't realise Centaur SMP systems existed, but I guess they must do for weak memory writes to mean anything. -- Jamie - 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/