Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:36:50 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: test13-pre5 |
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On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:27:23AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Sounds good. It could also be controlled by a CONFIG_SPACE_EFFICIENT for > > embedded systems, where you could trade a bit of CPU for less memory overhead > > even on systems where u8 is slow and atomicity doesn't come into play > > because it's UP anyways. > > UP has nothing to do with it. > > The alpha systems I remember this problem on were all SMP.
AFAIK alpha has byte instructions now.
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