Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:16:14 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frank Rowand <frowand@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC
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* Frank Rowand <frowand@mvista.com> wrote:

> < more stuff deleted >
> 
> I'm working on the architecture support for realtime on PPC64 now. If 
> the lock field of struct raw_rwlock_t is a long instead of int then 
> /proc/meminfo shows MemFree decreasing from 485608 kB to 485352 kB.
> 
> Do you have a preference for lock to be long instead of int?
> 
> Do you know if any of the other 64 bit architectures would have an 
> issue with int?

that would be nice to know. I have no preference, other than if possible 
it should be unified, no #ifdefs or other conditionals.

	Ingo
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