From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Nov 23 6: 2:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9450F1503C for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:02:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7D41C6D; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:01:28 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tommy Hallgren Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matt's new unlock optimiazation In-Reply-To: Message from Tommy Hallgren of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:40:10 PST." <19991123134010.5851.rocketmail@web113.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:01:28 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19991123140128.3A7D41C6D@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tommy Hallgren wrote: > Hi subscribers! > > FYI, this popped up in the linux-kern mailing-list: > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/this-week/0060.html > > The entire thread is here: > http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/this-week/subject.html#start > > The subject is: spin_unlock optimization(i386) A bit worrying, to say the least, especially coming from Linus (even moreso in light of his work at transmeta and what they're doing with/to Intel cpu's). Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message