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

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 18:37:39 EST


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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