| commit | 9d40ee200a527ce08ab8c793ba8ae3e242edbb0e | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | Wed Oct 07 10:54:19 2009 -0700 |
| committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | Wed Oct 07 10:54:19 2009 -0700 |
| tree | 189b7dc9cde0ceb791bb3bdd1a1d9a22aee00336 | |
| parent | 0eca52a92735f43462165efe00a7e394345fb38e [diff] |
[IA64] Squeeze ticket locks back into 4 bytes. Linus pointed out that other people have spent large amounts of time and effort to optimize the layout of frequently used structures. Often these have embedded locks, and the assumption is that a lock takes 4 bytes. Linus also pointed out how to work with the limited options for atomic instructions on Itanium. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>