Re: Reduce struct page by 8 bytes on 64bit

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 09:55:32 EST

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:43:12PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On sparc64. But is that true too for all other 64bit architectures supported?
>
> e.g. How about PA-RISC? (always seems to do things differently)

As you know our only two atomic ops are load-and-clear 32-bit quantity and
load-and-clear 64-bit quantity. so we take one of the hashed spinlocks ..

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