Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262685AbVDHEZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:25:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262687AbVDHEZI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:25:08 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:25729 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262685AbVDHEZE (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:25:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:22:19 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, akpm@osdl.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] Message-Id: <20050407212219.7009000b.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <1112932354.28858.192.camel@uganda> References: <1112931238.28858.180.camel@uganda> <20050408033246.GA31344@gondor.apana.org.au> <1112932354.28858.192.camel@uganda> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 17 On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:52:34 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > sparc64 has 32->64 conversation on exit. It's extremely cheap, the conversion instruction pairs with the retl instruction so it's essentially free. Talking about an arithmetic instruction over is complete nonsense when the atomic CAS instruction itself takes a minimum of 32 processor cycles :-) - 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/