Re: Question from Russells Spinlocks

[William Lee Irwin III]

Imanpreet Singh Arora wrote:
[...]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:53:22PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> In 2.6, the 24-bit limit is no longer valid.  atomic_t variables are a 
> full 32 bits on all arches now.

31 bits? They're signed IIRC.


-- wli
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