linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] ticket spinlocks for x86

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Date:	Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:36:54 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] ticket spinlocks for x86

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Just for fun I also had a shot at merging the headers, as they become a
> lot more similar after this with the removal of the paravirt crud.

Glommer posted a set of patches the other day to implement x86-64
paravirt, which unifies lots of things including spinlocks.  But if
you've removed the need to diddle with sti/cli, then that works too...

    J
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