Re: [PATCH][5/8] Arch agnostic completely out of line locks / ppc64

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 10 2004 - 02:44:00 EST



* William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:50:41AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Lets just make __preempt_spin_lock inline, then everything should work
> > as is.
>
> Well, there are patches that do this along with other more useful
> things in the works (my spin on this is en route shortly, sorry the
> response was delayed due to a power failure).

i already sent the full solution that primarily solves the SMP &&
PREEMPT latency problems but also solves the section issue, two days
ago:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/9/8/97

Ingo
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