Re: [Infiniband-general] Getting an Infiniband access layer in the Linux kernel

[Jamie Lokier]

Tillier, Fabian wrote:
> Further, comments in the x86 code base indicated that only 24-bits
> are actually valid (probably from some i386 limitation that is no
> longer relevant).

It is because of the Sparc architecture.  I think Sparc doesn't (or
perhaps didn't) have atomic operations, so a cunning hack is used to
simulate them.

-- Jamie
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