linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/10] x86/ticketlocks: remove obsolete comment

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:31:33 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/10] x86/ticketlocks: remove obsolete comment

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>

The note about partial registers is not really relevent now that we
rely on gcc to generate all the assembler.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index f5695ee..972c260 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@
  * issues and should be optimal for the uncontended case. Note the tail must be
  * in the high part, because a wide xadd increment of the low part would carry
  * up and contaminate the high part.
- *
- * With fewer than 2^8 possible CPUs, we can use x86's partial registers to
- * save some instructions and make the code more elegant. There really isn't
- * much between them in performance though, especially as locks are out of line.
  */
 static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
-- 
1.7.6

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