From: Tony Luck Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:52:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [IA64] Re-implement spinaphores using ticket lock concepts X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc6~11^2~1^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=883a3acf5b0d4782ac35981227a0d094e8b44850;p=pandora-kernel.git [IA64] Re-implement spinaphores using ticket lock concepts Bound the wait time for the ptcg_sem by using similar idea to the ticket spin locks. In this case we have only one instance of a spinaphore, so make it 8 bytes rather than try to squeeze it into 4-bytes to keep the code simpler (and shorter). Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- Reading git-diff-tree failed