Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932164AbVJKQyy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:54:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751460AbVJKQyy (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:54:54 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:41441 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751450AbVJKQyx (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:54:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:54:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Eric Dumazet cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 spinlocks should use the full 32 bits, not only 8 bits In-Reply-To: <434BEA0D.9010802@cosmosbay.com> Message-ID: References: <200510110007_MC3-1-AC4C-97EA@compuserve.com> <1129035658.23677.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> <434BDB1C.60105@cosmosbay.com> <434BEA0D.9010802@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 489 Lines: 17 On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > 2) The unlock sequence is not anymore inlined. It appears twice or three times > in the kernel. Ahh, that (2) is the killer, I'd totally forgotten. Ok, the patch is valid, no arguments. Linus - 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/