Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Date | Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:53:25 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: Ticket lock + cmpxchg cleanup |
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > Could we just kill SMP support for OOSTORE machines now? That would be > the cleanest possible fix...
No it wouldn't. The asm version would *still* be cleaner than the "C plus random barriers".
It's not like the C version is "portable" in any case.
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