Re: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64

[Hedi Berriche]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 00:55 Tony Luck wrote:
| > this fails so catastrophically
| 
| Interesting ... getting rid of some of the fancy asm bits
| (replacing both the ld4.c.nc and the ld2.bias with simple
| "serve = *p" and "tmp = *p") makes this run a lot better.

*Hasty* look seems to suggest that keeping the fancy asm bits but compiling with
-O2 -frename-registers makes it work equally well.

Don't take my word for it though, double check it, it's been a long week and
brain is anything but alert at this time of the night.

Cheers,
Hedi.
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Hedi Berriche
Global Product Support
http://www.sgi.com/support
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