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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/18] x86: Ticket lock + cmpxchg cleanup
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
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> 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.

Linus
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