Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:59:31 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:58632 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:59:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 rw_semaphores fix To: ak@suse.de (Andi Kleen) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:00:31 +0100 (BST) Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com (David Howells), andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton), bcrl@redhat.com (Ben LaHaise), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <20010410220551.A24251@gruyere.muc.suse.de> from "Andi Kleen" at Apr 10, 2001 10:05:51 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I guess 386 could live with an exception handler that emulates it. 386 could use a simpler setup and is non SMP > (BTW an generic exception handler for CMPXCHG would also be very useful > for glibc -- currently it has special checking code for 386 in its mutexes) > The 386 are so slow that nobody would probably notice a bit more slowness > by a few exceptions. Be serious. You can compile glibc without 386 support. Most vendors already distribute 386/586 or 386/686 glibc sets. - 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/